Thaindian News

August 30, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): Accepting your parents especially mothers as friends on Facebook has embarrassed many teens. They find the innocuous comments and nagging chats by their mothers humiliating and quite uncool.

A study conducted by AOL revealed that almost a third of the teens are ready to ‘unfriend’ their parents from their Facebook accounts. Further breakdown of the statistics show that most of them were irked more by their moms than dads.

Jeanne Leitenberg, a 27 year old girl together with her friend the 28 year old Erika Brooks Adickman launched a site only last year which put forward the problem admirably. It has been aptly called, ‘Oh Crap! My Parents Joined Facebook.’ She says that it is indeed embarrassing to find your moms wanting to share experiences like menopause which the kids do not want to hear about.

The website has reported at least 20 submissions per day from teens who are depressed by their mother’s comments or their friend requests.

Most of the mothers think that they are in with the times and should be considered as cool moms. However, they fail to realize how meddling and intrusive they really are.

The teens have started posting their protests vehemently in the cyber world. The Twitter has scores of such tweets which complain of how they are being stalked by their mothers in the cyber world. There is also a video on Youtube called ‘My Mom’s on Facebook’ which actually goes on to lament the loss of privacy on the web.

The teens are now rapidly losing interest in Facebook reports the results of a survey by the online gaming site, Roiworld.

The study by AOL found that about three fourths of the parents try to connect with their offsprings via the Facebook. The report from the Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions in June found the instance of mothers to be considerably higher than the fathers.

According to Brooks Adickman, the mothers are trying to reconnect the umbilical cord. However they are quick to take offense and start nagging if they get to feel neglected.