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By Jason Koebler
Everyone and their mom is on Facebook these days, and sometimes mom wants to say hey, according to a company analysis of parent-child interactions on the site released Thursday. Here's what they found.
Young teens are more likely to friend their parents than older teens: In perhaps the least shocking revelation ever, Facebook's youngest members are most likely to send their parents an initial friend request. About 65 percent of friendships between 13-year-olds and their parents are initiated by the child; about a third of friendships between 19-year-olds and their parents are initiated by the child. The data presumably includes children who are younger than 13 but lie about their age to get on the site. As children enter midlife, they become more likely than the parent to initiate the friend request. As Facebook puts it, "This overall trend follows the rough arc of children seeking distance from their parents as they prepare to leave the nest, and then gradually gravitating back as they accomplish their own milestones in life." As everyone else would put it, "Moommmmm stop invading my life."
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By Jason Koebler
Everyone and their mom is on Facebook these days, and sometimes mom wants to say hey, according to a company analysis of parent-child interactions on the site released Thursday. Here's what they found.
Young teens are more likely to friend their parents than older teens: In perhaps the least shocking revelation ever, Facebook's youngest members are most likely to send their parents an initial friend request. About 65 percent of friendships between 13-year-olds and their parents are initiated by the child; about a third of friendships between 19-year-olds and their parents are initiated by the child. The data presumably includes children who are younger than 13 but lie about their age to get on the site. As children enter midlife, they become more likely than the parent to initiate the friend request. As Facebook puts it, "This overall trend follows the rough arc of children seeking distance from their parents as they prepare to leave the nest, and then gradually gravitating back as they accomplish their own milestones in life." As everyone else would put it, "Moommmmm stop invading my life."
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