Yet this fear is largely self-imposed. My parents have Facebooks, and I encourage their use of it for socializing. I, however, am not friends with them. They're

Yet this fear is largely self-imposed. My parents have Facebooks, and I encourage their use of it for socializing. I, however, am not friends with them. They're not upset by this. Yet many of my (IRL) friends are friends with their parents, and have similar complaints. Perhaps the future of Facebook is not the expansion of your social graph, but the isolation of your social graphs. Perhaps that will be what kills the behemoth Facebook, the same ease of use, but with better controls over what persona you represent to what people.