We are family...

[mcroft]

So, my 13 year old niece has friended me on Facebook. That's pretty cool. And sorta scary.

I haven't censored myself online and, having thought about it I don't intend to. If she's old enough to be on Facebook, she's old enough to find my stuff. I've been pretty tame on Facebook, anyway. She hasn't found LiveJournal (that I know of), thus the post here. OTOH, Google exists. OTOOH, I'd be willing to explain anything she found, so there you go. Hope I never linked to any of the nasty shock sites.

So, yaye, she's starting to be her own person. Very cool.

Here's my question for the collective wisdom of LJ: How would you or have you dealt with the next generation of your family getting on-line?

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[skywhisperer.livejournal.com]

My brothers (who are 13 and 14 years younger then me, so nearly a generation), have me friended on FB. I don't use it for much besides random status updates.

My LJ has been relatively public knowledge for a while, although I'm not sure any of them actually read much of it. What I do is anything I don't mind my mother/coworkers/whatever reading (like cooking posts), I leave public. Anything I wouldn't want them to see, I make friends-only, and the really interesting stuff gets locked to only certain friend groups.

That feature (and the fact that many of my friends have LJs, so they don't need a new set of credentials) is the only thing that's kept me from going to WordPress.