My nieces and nephews are between 13-18. My brother told me that his 18 year son uses a gaming message board. My brother educated his kids to be very weary and careful of Facebook and other social sites due to privacy issues. He told them that if they start posting details of their lives, it will always be in the cloud and it can/will come back to bite them. That is so true. For instance, it's easy for me to do a screenshot of any picture with comments on FB and have it forever. I can then post it anywhere on the web; not that I would do that, my moral code wouldn't allow it lol.

Anyway, my nieces and nephews have FB accounts under pseudo names and they rarely post. They are able to have pseudo names because my brother has set up an elaborate home server.

It's funny, I originally signed up for FB to see what my nieces and nephews were up to since they live across the country. Well, they never posted or liked anything I posted. They stayed away from FB.

I really don't think kids want to have friended their parents or older relatives. In the past few years, FB has become inundated by middle aged people so that shift happened. On my FB News Feed, the middle aged tended to post things like inspirational sayings I've seen thousands of times, recipes, here's my pet again, I love my daughter and if you do, please share, here's my lovely kids AGAIN, etc. If that's someone's cup of tea, great, but that's not for me.

But then there are anomalies as to why certain kids are still on FB or maybe the kid is a momma's kid (not being harsh). If I was 16 again, I surely wouldn't want my parents or relatives to be on my Facebook page. I would have to curtail what post, so what's the point.

On the other hand, what is really odd is my brother-in-law's stepson (15 years old) who is really out there in no man's land. He's now living with his dad who lets him do anything. He posts continuous selfies and in September played out a family drama on FB where he knocked his mom. It was so sad and it made me feel awful to see this. I ended up removing him from my News Feed. He has a self-esteem issue and it's too bad his dad doesn't guide him. But that's the way the world is. Bad role models are a dime a dozen and that's sad, but a fact of life.