Your significant other isn’t the only one who you’ll be in a relationship with over Facebook now. In celebration of Mother’s Day, Facebook will let you list your parents, siblings and children (maybe more?) under the appropriately named “Family Member” section within your profile. A request will be sent to the user who will then, hopefully, accept it and the relationship will be shown on both profile. Easy Peasy.
There is already a website dedicated to the enthusiasm and excitement of parents joining Facebook by them kids. This is exactly the kind of thing that they (me too) have been waiting for to accept the ‘friend’ request from our parents. Before that it just seemed demeaning and insulting.
As for parents, what could give them more joy than to share the name, age and other personal information (profile) of their kids on their Facebook page. Tears of Joy flow everywhere.
Jokes aside, this is a great idea. The feature is long overdue, especially with the demographic spreading far beyond the original college and high school audience. Whether the demographic chooses to use it or not is something we’re going to have to wait to see; especially the college and high school students many of who are who are far from happy with their parents and uncles and aunts sending them ‘friend requests’.
May 9, 2009
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