New Study Suggests Basically All Moms Have Facebook!

Posted: Mon, 5/14/2012 - 1:52pm by

If you're like me, you spent Mother's Day finally watching the season finale of Fringe and pretending you couldn't hear your phone.

Oh my God, Walter just shot Olivia!

And while it was an awesome finale, I can not post about it on Facebook because the my mom will know I was dodging brunch with her. How would she know about it via Facebook you ask? Well hotshot, a recent study has shown that over seventy percent of US moms who use the internet log in to Facebook.

"All my mom friends are on here talking about knitting and birthing and whatnot!"
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Moms are seeping into every corner of the internet, with the same study finding 24 percent of internet-moms blogging with Blogger, 14 percent tweeting with Twitter, and and 8.3 percent reblogging Doctor Who .gifs with Tumblr. The only place you're safe from moms is Google Plus, which is so unpopular it wasn't even included in the study.

Pictured: Google+.
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The problem with Facebook, as I see it, are the potential social ramifications to denying a friend request. We want to curate the people who see our information, but Facebook has become so ubiquitous that we feel the need to accept everyone. This goes double for Moms. "I carry you in my stomach for nine months and you can't accept me on Facebook?" moms probably shout. Ugh, is anyone else just over that argument? Pregnancy can't be that hard.