Facebook facepalm

We've all wondered whether our parents and even grandparents set up Facebook profiles to be more connected with us or to keep their eyes on us.

It seems like option B is the winner.

Results from a recent survey of 2,000 British parents show that more than 50 percent of parents use social media as a way of spying on their children. The results came back with 55 percent of respondents saying they use social media to keep track of their kids' online activities.

C'mon, moms and dads. You don't need to know how good we are at shotgunning beers, and you don't need to see us in our barely there Halloween costumes.

At first, it may have seemed like they wanted to be more in tune with us youngsters and our dadgum technology. It certainly seems like they try. They poke us. They send us amusing YouTube videos that we watched months ago (that sneezing panda that was a knee-slapper years ago might have just given your grandpa a hearty chuckle for the first time), and they are responsible for those painfully clueless and uncool comments on our statuses.

"What does ‘lmao' mean?" "Is a hashtag what I think it is?" "Why do you want to crawl into a hole today? Did you fail your finance exam?"

This is the kind of stuff that makes us yearn for the 1990s way of life, when the Internet wasn't so important and our social lives were still carried out in the sunshine.

Dammit, where's Al Gore when you need him?