In celebration of Mother’s Day, Facebook now lets you list and connect to your family members in the “Basic Information” part of your profile. Starting later today and through this weekend, you will see a new “Family Members” section within the Information tab on your profile. You can enter your parents, children, sisters and brothers and can list family members even if they aren’t Facebook users. If you include their birthdays, Facebook will show their ages too.
This is a good idea in theory and I think many users would have no problem listing and connecting siblings on their profiles. But I feel that a lot of people may not use this feature because they don’t want to list their parents on their profiles. I can see parents wanting to list their children but I’m not so sure that the feeling would be mutual, especially amongst younger users who may not want their parents to be connected to their lives via Facebook.
Facebook also said it is considering an extended family section for the future.
Is Facebook ran by a bunch of stalkers or something?
So heart warming, innit?
This is so dumb, so much that I could not even imagine someone actually thought about doing this and got approved. Mark Z must be really desperate to get traffic.
BTW, I have not checked my Facebook in 3 weeks.
Facebook is the only social network to date that has been successful in bringing in the baby boomers in troops to their site. You got to give them credit for that, despite the fact that my mom and aunts are there now.
- Not from India
This is cute.
I had to unfriend my mom because age somehow became my friend automatically when she joined (probably because I hit add email contacts when account was first created).
I felt guilty, but I enjoy my mom in small doses. She can always call or email me, I told her.
Still don’t think she took it so well, but can’t I have a virtual boundary at least?
This is great news for social engineers. Need to know someone’s mother’s maiden name? Just friend them on facebook.
omg u r right! damn this is dangerous! x(
Happy Mother’s Day!
Resistance is Futile: Your Mom will be Assimilated.
Which is why their are focused & niche social networks …
Geni is awesome for keeping in touch with family.
It’s not mutual. I added my son as a friend. Two weeks later I found out that he had un-friended me (he didn’t tell me and I didn’t notice for awhile). It was probably for the best.