Spy Moms
A Compromising Position
"Our son, thinking he is clever, works tirelessly to unfriend, privatize, etc., thinking that all his texts and posts will be totally private. All was going well for him until I decided to join Facebook. And though he wouldn't friend me, I was able to follow him (without his knowledge) on Facebook, through his brother (I was friends with his brother, as was he).
"Most of his posts were quite normal for a high-school kid until once when he posted a picture of him and his girlfriend lying together in a bed… in a girly bedroom. Obviously there was no supervision at her house! Without telling him how I had seen it, I suggested he remove it as it was probably not what he was intending. He could not imagine in a million years how I had even seen it. I had to remind him gently that social media is just that… social!" —Ann
Underwear Photos
"I'm not on Facebook, but my sister-in-law is and is friends with my kids. A few months ago, she called me to let me know my eighth-grade daughter and her best friend had traded underwear (yeah, I don't know what that was about either!) and posted pictures of themselves on Facebook. They both had camisoles and brief panties on, so it wasn't any more revealing than bathing suits, but boys in their class started posting comments like 'sluts.' I couldn't believe my daughter had done something so stupid, so I went and got her out of school and made her deactivate her Facebook account. We told her another mom had seen the pictures so my sister-in-law could keep spying on her." —Paula
Underage Drinking
"At my older daughter's college graduation, I found out that my three older kids had let my high-schooler (who's 16) drink beer after my husband and I had gone back to the hotel. One of them posted a picture of the four of them at a table—with four beers. They tried to say it was the photographer's beer! There was not enough evidence to 'convict,' but it was pretty incriminating! I did make them take the picture down." —Laura
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Forbidden Red Bull
"I let my daughter, who was then 13, join Facebook with the understanding that I was about to monitor all her online activities. Even with that warning, she'd forget and post about things she wasn't supposed to do. We had discussed why she wasn't allowed to drink Red Bull. Then, just a few days later, her friend posted a picture of her drinking Red Bull… while sitting in a shopping cart in the middle of the street! (I forgot to forbid her to do that!) —Jennifer
Inappropriate Status Updates
"I'm Facebook friends with all three of my children and usually check out their Facebook pages two to three times a week. I don't comment on their posts; only "like-ing" or congratulating them on an accomplishment; publicly embarrassing your kids (which is pretty much anything you might say on Facebook) will get you defriended in a nanosecond.
"Occasionally they forget to filter what they're thinking before posting passionate, emotional posts—it's just so easy to tap into their phones in a moment of rage and then click post. They usually remove those angry posts; what's even better is after many discussions, that occurrences have definitely decreased." —Joanne
Potty Mouth
"My daughter never swears in real life, but on Facebook, it's a different story. I've made her take those posts down." —Patti
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