Ok. I am a parent. To a teenager. 2 metres tall game development student and I believe I am extremely qualified to give you tips, tricks & advice on this issue due to my many failures in social media according to my teenage son. I am on strike 2 with a brisk warning.

First things first.

This is me;

I am an addicted social media user and spend my evenings preferably with the computer before TV. YouTube is a passion of mine and I can so get lost in it! I am also a very heavy user of Facebook and Twitter and of course I have linked my tweets to my facebook account and my linkedin profile.

This is my son:

17 year old WoW player. Loves YouTube and can’t really understand the hype of Facebook. Twitter is for people with an egocentric personality. Unless there is something called play or game in it he is not interested.

This is us:

We are both aries, social and outgoing people with a huge network and we both live very busy lives with a very hectic schedule. We both love soccer, he used to play it and I am on the youth board at Högaborgs Bollklubb. We could also give our right arm for chocolate. And yeah, we don’t like domestic things at all. So geeks in our own way so to speak!

Conclusion:

Now, when it comes to facebook my son is very protective and I should never ever write ANYTHING on his profile. He doesn’t like when his friends add me and believes that facebook status updates are boring.  My take is that of course I add his friends! I have known them since they were babies most of them anyway. I write status updates a couple of times every day and I have only written on his wall two times. Two times too many!

So I am on strike 2. The lesson for us parents is to respect but also make a choice. To be present and available but not showing. Can I do that? Well if I don’t want my son to block me I think I have too :D

Please dont block me!

Donna

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