Parents, Kids Have Kind Words for Each Other on Facebook

Your kids are more likely to initiate friending you on Facebook when they're young, suggests a new study from Facebook. Data gathered by the social networking giant shows 65% of 13-year-olds initiate of friendships with their parents on the social network. That figure drops to about 40% by the time they reach their early to mid-twenties. You'll have to wait until your kids are in their early forties before they start to friend you first (50%) again on Facebook.

Parents and kids comment about the same amount when kids are young. As the child gets older, parents comment more often -- perhaps this is because younger people post more often than their parents, writes Moira Burke, an analyst i…
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