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It might take 371 days for your mom to friend you on Facebook
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It might take 371 days for your mom to friend you on Facebook

Family dynamics and social media = always potentially dicey.

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Ted Bauer
Jul 10, 2014
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This is kind of old, but I just learned about it. Sue me. Facebook did a study on family dynamics within the site --utilizing millions of users -- and found a bunch of interesting stuff, but perhaps most notably this: on average, parent-child pairs wait 371 days after joining Facebook to become official friends. DA FUQ? That's an entire year! This study…

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