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Facebook has too much network effect - if you don't want to share your life with your parents you need to be on a platform they aren't.

In my case I never friended my parents on FB, and keep G+ for family - which means I don't share things with the wrong group.

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For normal people. sharing their lives with loved ones is a positive. Creating a social network for antisocial people makes no sense.

You never share some things only with certain groups of people, because of relevance or intimacy ?

I don't think you understood the comment I was replying to, which advocated going to a totally different platform from the one your parents use in order to not share your life with them.

I wasn't very clear - I don't want to share the details of my drunk exploits with my parents, if something happens that is relevant to them and my friends I add it to both. Hardly takes a minute.

I can't tell if you're incredibly naive or if you just believe your parents are.

There's such a thing as not rubbing their noses in it....

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