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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]11:21 Facebook: There is lots that's visible to anyone who's signed into Facebook, you don't have to be their friend. Twitter is public, too, unless the account holder has a closed account.

People do not get that Facebook and Twitter are effectively public places. Not only that, an account holder has no control of who sends their tweet or their photo or their post anywhere.

I do not get how people can be opposed to checking Facebook and Twitter. [b]What is the point of avoiding it?[/b] It's not an invasion of privacy because these are not private places. [/quote]

PP here.  "Avoiding it" is not my point.  I am "friends" with my college age kids on Facebook.  Sure, I see things that they post to the world as part of my News Feed and there are even some things that I am not crazy about seeing.  But in my mind, the concept of "monitoring" has a diffrent connotation. I am not [b] actively checking[/b] to make sure that my college sophmore is only posting stuff that I feel is appropriate.  We have talked to all of the kids about responsible social media use and the consequences of it.  The oldest two have attended mandatory seminars put on by their colleges that address it. So....the message has been conveyed to them multiple times. At a certain point, we have to trust that we have raised them to be responsible and accountable. [/quote]

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