Two of my children, an 11 year old and a 12 year old, enjoy being on Facebook along with, it seems, most of their friends.
My Brother in law, who has no children of his own, has sent me the following message on FB (Names changed but otherwise copied and pasted)
" Spider - shouldn't the kids be min. 13yrs to be on FB?
My friend Joe Bloggs is using rich language for instance, so it has always bothered me that Spiderboy and Spidergirl are on my FB 'friends' list for this sort of reason.
The only thing is that, it seems rude to remove them (the kids). Links to Spiderboy's pictures of his 'bezzie', (best mate?) appeared on my news feed.
Can I speak frankly? I just don't think it is right. I'm thinking of deleting them."
I have written, but not yet sent, a reply saying it's fine for them to be on, he's wrong but he can delete them if he wants. I've also reassured him they have absolutely no interest in his sweary friend Joe Bloggs anyway. I have also included the odd sarcastic remark thanking him for his parenting advice. Should I leave out the sarcasm?
I am pretty pissed off with his patronising tone tbh. I won't mention that he's 44, single and back living with his mum.