Facebook, Twitter Revolutionizing How Parents Stalk Their College - Aged kids

It's back to school season, and for a lot of you out there, that means kids going back to college. - Right. The networking website, Facebook, is a great tool to help you keep in constant contact with your grown kids. And here to show us how it all works is Today Now's own E-Mom, Gloria Bianco. Nice to see you. - Gloria, good to see you again. Hi Jim, hey Tracy. - Now you've all heard the term Facebook, but we may not know that you can use it to keeps tabs on your children's personal lives, even when they're far away from home. You can you're gonna love this, it's so easy. All you do is create a profile, and search for your son or daughter's name and add them to your list of friends. - Oh OK. Within minutes you can be writing on their wall, I write to my son Jeffrey about five or six times per day. He must love being able to stay in touch with his mom like that. Yeah. - It's a great way to remind him to take his psoriasis medication, or just to tell him how much I love my little Jeffrey. That is really great. - The thing I love about Facebook is all the photos. Yes. - That's my favorite part too. I look through all of my son Jeffrey's photos every single day. Do you really? - Now look, I can see here that he's with this young woman with a low cut shirt showing a lot of skin, It looks like they're having a lot of fun. Girls like that like to have fun. Now see here with the Facebook feature called "tagging," I can find out she is Jenny Longman just by scrolling over her. That is neat! - Wow. Now Facebook won't let me see her entire profile, but I can get a good enough idea of what she's like just by looking at this trampy picture. - I'd say so. The other great thing about tagging is that you can see pictures of your kids posted by any of their other friends. - Really. Now see here, here's a picture of my, - Oh sure. son at an event entitled "Jenny's Blazing Rager Dusk Till Dawn." Here's that young woman Jenny Longman again. Oh, look at that. - Now, here's my favorite site of all, Twitter. It allows you to virtually follow your son or daughter's every move, you can hear their every thought it's like a dream come true. Hey that is great. - Oh wow. Here's my page, you just pick a name that's very common, and after you add the year your son or daughter was born, and they'll think it's someone that they graduated with. - Very clever. You can send them messages all day long, they won't even complain about it. Just make sure that you spell everything wrong and swear a lot. - Right. And sometimes your child will even respond to you. That's great! - It is great, because if you're thinking of driving up to your son or daughter's college some night just to watch them through the window, you'll know if they're around or not. - Right, could take you a lot of time. Or if your son says he's going to go off snowboarding for the weekend with someone named Jenny, you can send her a message warning her to keep her *** hands off your son unless she wants to find herself in some pretty big trouble. OK, so now the only excuse for not knowing every detail of your child's life, is having a life of your own. Gloria, thank you so much for being with us again. OK. - And now get your glasses ready, because we're going to interview a war widow in 3D. Get those glasses out.