Parents Gone Wild
The Times reports on how obsessive "
helicopter parents"—they hover—are using
Facebook.com to check out their kids' roommates, and sometimes object to them.
Apparently some parents have forgotten that one reason to go to college is to learn from other people who are different from you.
For example, I learned from one of my freshman year roommates that if you don't shower at least once every two to three weeks, you will, in fact, smell. And a valuable lesson it was....
Roommates! But will they be BFF?There's another question, of course, about whether young people put way too much information on Facebook and
MySpace....I haven't seen a piece on employers checking out MySpace pages, but if it hasn't happened yet, it won't be long.
