Another winner from The Onion, which tells parents how to keep tabs on their kids via Facebook and Twitter: “Within minutes you can be writing on their wall. I write to my son Jeffrey about 5 or 6 times per day..It’s a great way to remind him to take his psoriasis medication or just to remind him how much I love him.”
There are also useful tips on stalking your children using a fake Twitter account so they don’t know who you are. “You can send them messages all day long and they won’t know who you are. Just make sure you spell everything wrong and swear a lot.”
This isn’t the home run that Google Privacy Opt Out and Macbook Wheel were, but it’s a solid double. I love The Onion.
Yea… Having ones mom as a friend on facebook is a sure win with the girls.
what if your mom found out you post on http://f2bbs.com ?
“Within minutes you can be writing on their wall. I write to my son Jeffrey about 5 or 6 times per day..It’s a great way to remind him to take his psoriasis medication or just to remind him how much I love him.”
Wow, that is going to ruin his dates when his subject of interest reads a message reminding him to take his psoriasis medications.
my aunt was stalking my boyfriend on Facebook. i only found out after he received an email in his inbox that said “you are the one. i am her aunt”
in all fairness, auntie’s first language isn’t english. but still…she should’ve spelled everything wrong and dropped an f-bomb. LOL.
Love it!
This line is priceless: “…the only excuse for not knowing every detail of your child’s life is having a life of your own.”
loved it, best part of the interview.
Nice to see how fake accounts and messages are going to be useful in caring and following the kids and relatives
Hilarious!
Best bit for those who missed it (from their Twitter conversation)
Mum : ah dude, porno fucked up my computer !
Kid : So drunk last night
Mum : Just remembered, should check my tire pressure. You should too unless you want to get in an accident.
Kid : Ok pussy will do
Mum : Fuck you bro
Awesome.
Oops, my comment below was meant to be a reply to your comment, Jules.
That is awesome, but the tease at the end is priceless!!!
Why would you post something from The Onion? Slow news day? Jesus, TC…i’d rather have a post saying “Nothing new here to drive up our ad impressions, check back in a little while” than some stupid Onion story…
Lighten up, Francis.
@josh, you don’t enjoy life much do you?
Its ok to laugh a little.
I want to find you and hit you with a stick.
That is AWESOME! Thanks for pointing it out.
You also have to give a lot of credit to the two actors who are so spot-on as air-headed morning show hosts. They are brilliant.
“Spelling Bee Champion Fails to Spell His Way Out of Schoolyard Beating”
I’m sorry – this is so silly. No teenager would have a Twitter account.
This is a riot
I have some of my relatives on Facebook including my mom and sister and never had any problems. There’s this great thing called privacy setting, in case if you haven’t figured out already.
Thank god my mom is not on Twitter or Facebook!
MICHAEL, THIS ‘DRAG TO SHARE’ CRAP ON EVERY GRAPHIC IN EVERY TC ENTRY IS RUBBISH. MOVE THE CURSOR AROUND A LOT AND THE PAGE OVERWHELMS WITH VIBRATIONS. BASTA.
FAIL.
I like this entry about the Onion, however.
In case you’re not catching it right away….this is a joke. Tongue in Cheek, Sarcasm, Parody…..
Seems there’s a few out there who missed that.
Yeah, it is a joke, but at same time, this actually does portray some concerns, just in funny ways. Replace eMom with eStalker, or eBoss, etc.
When I saw this on the onion I got literally sick to my stomach … I felt uneasy and like I was about to call in sick as I headed over to techcrunch.com for probably one of the last times in my life to see … you guessed it … an article. I’m sure you guys have gained a bucketload of 14 year olds and stay-at-home moms to your readership and lost the core silicon-valley community. I was amazed at how techcrunch didn’t fall prey to the mind numbingly painful stupidity that you find on the news aggregator sites as they get flooded by people with too much time and not enough to do.
But, that is, of course, no longer the case. I rarely come here anymore — if not just to see that you are still up to the same game.
You guys have the crunchbase — it’s the source for startupland – but you have alienated your community with this infatuation of a single company and anything that merely mentions it.
It’s totally reckless. May God help you.
Ha Ha Ha this is funny…
Hahaha! Now that was entertaining! “Spell words wrong and swear a lot”. XD Fake accounts? Funny.
But I guess it’s true. It kinda makes me think of a You Got Mail movie scenario. Remember when Tom Hank’s character found out that it was Meg Ryan he’s been talking to but he kept playing along with the chatting and all that?
It could bring parents and children together…
Or not…
I like the fact that parents attempting to keep up to date with technology, but they need to be careful if they are going to tap into social media to communicate with their kids. Social media these days plays the same role as what old traditional ‘high school’ networking is all about. i.e. doing what you can to be one of the “popular crowd.” Having your parents utilize your facebook or twitter accounts to communicate would be the same as having your mom visit you during passing period to say hi and make sure you ‘took your medication.’
Trust me this is ammunition for future bullying and harassment. If it is a must to stay in tune with your kids at all times, I would recommend text messaging – short, intimate, and most of all private!