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Blocking mom from net-stalking you
- Thread starter dojokun
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Yeah, I don't have the urge to tell my mom when some girl has a nice rack.
I don't mix friends/with familty, that's it.
I'm not a mama's boy so I don't want her knowing and worrying, and I'm not a criminal or something so I don't need to worry about future employers reading it. It's really that simple.
wormstrangler
Banned
So you tell your mum about your sex life/random hookups or that amazing time you had when rolling on MDMA?
If you do, congratulations on having a cool mum but not everyone has such an open minded mother/relationship.
SnakeswithLasers
Member
I still don't understand the problem here.
You're an adult. If you care this much, you have three choices:
1) Stop using twitter. Medium difficulty, and doesn't really solve the problem.
2) Change your name. Easy difficulty, solves part of the problem.
3) Continue using twitter and accept that your mother is going to keep following you. Deal with the consequences of that reality via communication and desensitization, rather than running from it. Hard difficulty, helps you grow as a person, and potentially solves the problem, but at least it addresses the problem and treats your mother as a human being.
You're an adult. If you care this much, you have three choices:
1) Stop using twitter. Medium difficulty, and doesn't really solve the problem.
2) Change your name. Easy difficulty, solves part of the problem.
3) Continue using twitter and accept that your mother is going to keep following you. Deal with the consequences of that reality via communication and desensitization, rather than running from it. Hard difficulty, helps you grow as a person, and potentially solves the problem, but at least it addresses the problem and treats your mother as a human being.
Twitter is more like using a megaphone, and not some random chit chat you've been having with friends.
If I was someone who would put it out there publically, like say....on twitter, I wouldn't have a problem with my mother knowing about it.
It's a little insulting to pretend like your relatives need to be in some kind of "bubble" from your happenings, how about you treat them like people and let them be the ones to decide whether or not to keep reading about your brocapades.
The Abominable Snowman
Member
Block her. Then change your twitname, and if your real name is on twitter TAKE THAT SHIT OFF!
Facebook allows me to post to certain people and not others, without blocking said users. I was simply asking if twitter has an option to make it so certain users dont see what I'm tweeting, without fully blocking them. No one asked you to play internet psychiatrist.
What's insulting is pretending like not sharing everything with your mom is indicative if some deep psychological problem.
SnakeswithLasers
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"This is neogaf." Really, what did you expect?
ConradCervantes
Banned
I have my parents blocked on Facebook. I kinda feel like a dickhead about it, but it's warranted considering my sense of humor could be considered too abrasive for them to not give me shit about it over.
Answers about twitter, not about mothers.
No.
I H8 Memes
Member
Oh shit I just had a million dollar idea. You set up a fake twitter/facebook account to give to family that you dont want to have access to your real account. We then manage those accounts for you, including posting generic clean updates on your fake account and forwarding your families postings to you. All for the low low price of $4.99 per month.
Foliorum Viridum
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I don't see why you just don't delete her.
My mum is on Facebook but she's never tried to add me as a friend because she respects my privacy. She understands social networking is a place where I discuss things with friends and she's never wanted to invade that.
If she gets insulted by not letting her follow you then that's retarded.
My mum is on Facebook but she's never tried to add me as a friend because she respects my privacy. She understands social networking is a place where I discuss things with friends and she's never wanted to invade that.
If she gets insulted by not letting her follow you then that's retarded.
You're in a bubble FV!
Barbacoatl
Banned
I can relate dojokun. My Dad started following me (along with a couple of cousins and my sister in law, why). I haven't since tweeted mental farts like I used to. I could get a new account or stay away from tweeting and become a full time follower. It's not that they don't know me or that I don't want them to discover some obscure facet. I believe there's a time and place for all. I get twitters block with my Dad potentially listening to all that shit in my head. I love my parents to death but I don't bring them with me to every party I get invited to, no.
The anxiety we endure because of the social parawebnalia.
The anxiety we endure because of the social parawebnalia.
Stop posting dumb shit nobody cares about on twitter. Problem solved.
ChubbyHuggs
Member
Dude, just tell her not to worry. My mom moved to Mexico and then moved back here for a short while, so now we're in the same house again. She sees all the raunchy things I post. Sometimes she doesn't even watch what I post, just likes them and tells me, "I support whatever you post."
Latest post:
http://youtu.be/eqYwwuWYFEU
http://youtu.be/u1D8jz7izyE
Latest post:
http://youtu.be/eqYwwuWYFEU
http://youtu.be/u1D8jz7izyE
Hey man, without dumb shit places like Facebook and twitter would go out of business. The internet is where you go for dumb shit.
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
Sounds like an opportunity for incest. Get in there!
Ya. For me it's hard to explain it to people whose parents grew up somewhere other than Viet Nam (where my parents are from).
ChubbyHuggs
Member
Grody D:
PumpkinPie
Banned
Hit her on the head with a cast iron statuette and then roll her up in a carpet.
Wait, wut?
Wait, wut?
Fully understand you OP. I never had a rebellious phase with my parents, so they're used to me giving a lot of explanations of what I do and I don't, and now (me being 24) I still follow everything they say.
That being said, there's a moment in life where you must set a line, so that you become your own individual, like your parents did with theirs (or should have, anyway). I'm learning now that this transition to adulthood is to make your parents realize you no longer are that kid that they had so many expectations for, but you're the adult that they raised (with the pros and cons that might have). They have to understand that your life is determined by your own decisions and it might be tough for them. I know my parents (and especially my mother) have a hard time coming to terms with my own decisions, so you have to be understanding to a certain point. My mother is on facebook, and there was a time she used to comment and ask me about anything I would share (why would "x" friend say "y" thing and the like). It got to a point when I started being vague about it. Right now she doesn't even care for my facebook (she's too busy with citiville anyway lol) and she just looks at my sister's.
Anyway, I don't recommend blocking her or anything, but you have to make her understand that it is your life and don't give her explanations. Depending on how clingy she is, you might need to be more harsh but try not to.
That being said, there's a moment in life where you must set a line, so that you become your own individual, like your parents did with theirs (or should have, anyway). I'm learning now that this transition to adulthood is to make your parents realize you no longer are that kid that they had so many expectations for, but you're the adult that they raised (with the pros and cons that might have). They have to understand that your life is determined by your own decisions and it might be tough for them. I know my parents (and especially my mother) have a hard time coming to terms with my own decisions, so you have to be understanding to a certain point. My mother is on facebook, and there was a time she used to comment and ask me about anything I would share (why would "x" friend say "y" thing and the like). It got to a point when I started being vague about it. Right now she doesn't even care for my facebook (she's too busy with citiville anyway lol) and she just looks at my sister's.
Anyway, I don't recommend blocking her or anything, but you have to make her understand that it is your life and don't give her explanations. Depending on how clingy she is, you might need to be more harsh but try not to.
:lol
Blackace
if you see me in a fight with a bear, don't help me fool, help the bear!
Just tell her...
Is your mom really going to worry about you going to bars and eating bacon or french fries her whole life? Like you can't possibly explain these things? If there's lewd comments on there then ok, but the rest is so inoffensive I have a hard time believing a human being can't accept it.
you know what is funny about that?
it just shows how rigid and narrow-minded most people are. I mean some people are afraid of what their parents might think of them and it just means that there are certain conditions under which parents "love" or "accept" them. It's like parents are just as alien for them as any other person. I understand the concern but parents aren't supposed to be people who judge their children. They must embrace them no matter what their children are (until they are a threat to society).
it just shows how rigid and narrow-minded most people are. I mean some people are afraid of what their parents might think of them and it just means that there are certain conditions under which parents "love" or "accept" them. It's like parents are just as alien for them as any other person. I understand the concern but parents aren't supposed to be people who judge their children. They must embrace them no matter what their children are (until they are a threat to society).
BladeoftheImmortal
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I don't, who is he?
that's all well and good in fantasyland but meanwhile, in the real world...
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