Tweeting lies!

[parsnipcake]

My 16 yr old ( foster) daughter has, in post exam boredom become obsessed with twitter. I don't follow any of her social networking, but she quite often leaves her twitter account logged in so all her tweets show as alerts on the iPad when I go to use it. She tweets such negative stuff and such total lies about me - not dreadful things, but complaining that I put her dirty laundry back in her room, how dare I? ( after shed left it in the kitchen for a week), that her £200 prom dress was shit, that I forced her to clean the house ( pmsl). It's really starting to piss me off as I am so supportive of her, and while I would expect her to bitch and moan to her friends, broadcasting lies to the world seems rather unfair, especially as shes doing it on my ipad or my phone! I tweeted back once and was rewarded with hysterics for my tongue in cheek response. I know it's partly because she's around all day but aaaaargh. Any ideas? Apart from killing her?

No advice, but just marking my place. I'm hoping this is normal, as my 13yo DS told me yesterday he hates me and wishes I would go and live somewhere else because I constantly try and help him and tell him what he should do. (Note should).

Infuriating! Maybe sitting her down and explaining that you understand she enjoys 'venting' but if she feels the need to be so public she will not be welcome to use your equipment.

I work with teens and I can never get my head around some of the things they feel are ok to say in a public forum. Actually, that is a point. Does she understand how damaging this behaviour can be? You have professional responsibility towards her as a foster parent and she is essentially calling that into question.

I think it needs an honest conversation.

I've told dd that she is completely entitled to bitch about me to individual friends but she's not allowed to broadcast what I do on Facebook/twitter - and I show her the same courtesy.

As she's talking about you I would point out that she wouldn't like it if you did the same - respect blah, blah.

As a 17 year old girl myself, I know the pull that social networking has on teens. In fact, I became so obsessed with Twitter it became an addiction andIi had to shut down my account. What your DD doesn't realise is that although it's her new fad, whatever she is writing, no one actually cares about it!!

If she is bitching about you on twitter then maybe you should get her to disable her account for a while, to show her who's boss... trust me it'll benefit her in the long run! She needs to learn how to use social networking sites for the right reasons.