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Nope. Here's a difference: My parents never signed up for MySpace. It takes a lot of momentum to stop a beast as big as Facebook. MySpace was never even close.

mitchty 14y ago
While true, is this just the first example of a social site that has gotten big enough to attract your parents? Or is this the first site your parents will, for lack of a better term, abandon just like others did with myspace?
- bradwestness 14y ago
  Yeah, I don't know that it's really anything to do with Facebook per se, but rather the fact that it's 2012 and people's parents are now signing up for social media sites.
- bzalasky 14y ago
  I think it's the case that Facebook has just gotten that big. Also, it doesn't have terrible custom backgrounds like MySpace. To the extent that they can avoid that, I think they'll be ok. There's probably a few other things they should focus on too...
alan_cx 14y ago
Serious question: Did your parents think you might be groomed on MySpace by perverts? Were the worried for you in any way? (In this context of course, I'm sure in general they care about you!!!) See, a lot of parents sign up to facebook because of the various scare stories, and want to monitor their kids. I know quite a few in that category. On the other hand, I'm a parent and I signed up before my kids even knew FB existed. My parents have not signed up, and likely never will. Neither will my parents parents, but then Im not sure they even know what a "facebook" even is. I have since closed my facebook account. Unless places like here are some how called "social", I don't do "social" at all. Well, I do, but I don't call sitting in front of a computer social. I call it giving over personal information so a web site can make money. Not that there is anything wrong with that, its fair enough for those who want to partake. But to me, that is what it is. I communicate with friends via email if I have to use a computer to do so.
- bzalasky 14y ago
  I don't think my parents were concerned for me by the time MySpace was a thing, though I do remember them talking to me and my sister about being careful in chat rooms on AOL back in the day.

mitchty 14y ago

While true, is this just the first example of a social site that has gotten big enough to attract your parents? Or is this the first site your parents will, for lack of a better term, abandon just like others did with myspace?

bradwestness 14y ago
Yeah, I don't know that it's really anything to do with Facebook per se, but rather the fact that it's 2012 and people's parents are now signing up for social media sites.
bzalasky 14y ago
I think it's the case that Facebook has just gotten that big. Also, it doesn't have terrible custom backgrounds like MySpace. To the extent that they can avoid that, I think they'll be ok. There's probably a few other things they should focus on too...

alan_cx 14y ago

Serious question: Did your parents think you might be groomed on MySpace by perverts? Were the worried for you in any way? (In this context of course, I'm sure in general they care about you!!!) See, a lot of parents sign up to facebook because of the various scare stories, and want to monitor their kids. I know quite a few in that category. On the other hand, I'm a parent and I signed up before my kids even knew FB existed. My parents have not signed up, and likely never will. Neither will my parents parents, but then Im not sure they even know what a "facebook" even is. I have since closed my facebook account. Unless places like here are some how called "social", I don't do "social" at all. Well, I do, but I don't call sitting in front of a computer social. I call it giving over personal information so a web site can make money. Not that there is anything wrong with that, its fair enough for those who want to partake. But to me, that is what it is. I communicate with friends via email if I have to use a computer to do so.

bzalasky 14y ago
I don't think my parents were concerned for me by the time MySpace was a thing, though I do remember them talking to me and my sister about being careful in chat rooms on AOL back in the day.