My roommate and I were complaining the other night about how annoying it is when our moms like literally every post involving us on Facebook. They’ll comment on pictures of us that were posted by our friends or like the fact that we’re “going” to an event.

In college, there can be a lot of things we would prefer our parents not to see. In my case, this would be basically every night I go out. Not because my pictures are terrible, but because college now, compared to my parents’ time, is just generally crazier when it comes to the amount we go out.

Now that I have “accepted” my mom on Facebook, she has the ability to see every picture I’ve ever posted. So if I posted pictures from every weekend, and, God forbid, the occasional Tuesday and Thursday, I would be getting a call from her asking what I’m doing with my life. Thank God, I’ve deleted pictures from high school, otherwise I would probably be getting into trouble for parties I’d gone to six years ago…

My point is that we now have to censor ourselves on social media, specifically Facebook, to live up to the standard our parents hold us to. Facebook started in college and worked its way down to high school. Remember how annoyed we were when all the middle schoolers started bombarding us with friend requests? Well, now it’s the invasion of the middle-aged.

The generation gap is pretty obvious on Facebook. Where my friends and I are teasing each other on pictures, telling each other how “hawt” we look in one picture or another (again, let me be clear, we do not use that word seriously, no one should), our mothers and their friends are posting paragraphs on each other’s photos catching up on the last five years.

Our generation does not take much of what we post on social media seriously. Basically it’s a way for us to try and show everyone how supposedly awesome and fun our lives are. In contrast, our parents and grandparents are using Facebook as the latest version of snail mail.

Luckily, once this group started taking over Facebook, we were able to turn to Instagram and Twitter. I don’t really tweet, but I use Instagram as an outlet for my more alcohol-inspired photos. My mom recently told me she had gotten an Instagram account and I just looked at her and said, “You can’t follow me.” She’s under the impression that I share all my photos to Facebook anyway so, at this point, I’m safe.

It makes me wonder where social media is headed though. I mean, poor Mark Zuckerberg. He created the biggest social media site of our generation and began all of this. He had all the right ages addicted, college and high school. But now, his site is becoming overrun with those 40 and up. Pretty much all our age group uses Facebook for now is to share various buzzfeed articles.

I looked up some statistics and, as of December 2013, this is the percentage of each age group on social networking sites: 18 to 29 year olds, 90 percent; 30 to 49, 78 percent; 50 to 64, 65 percent; 65 and up, 46 percent. So, that’s right, people, about three-fourths of our parents are now able to stalk our last eight or so years through Facebook.

I love my mom and love that I can now tag her in pictures or see old pictures of my brother and I, but sometimes the number of notifications I get from her alone can simply be too much. I have unfriended people or taken them off my news feed for less.

My dad, on the other hand, never has and never will have any kind of social media. He sees it all as pointless so my brother and I tag my mom in all birthday and Father’s Day posts. I feel these are the two types of people in this age group. One has totally and completely embraced social media and will continue to blow up our news feeds, the other still cherishes the years when the only kind of contact they had was face to face or through letters.

Personally, I miss the times of handwritten letters too. It was so exciting to get a letter in the mail addressed specifically to you. But I think social media has overall been a positive advancement in our society.

However, I am dreading the moment our parents take on Snapchat…maybe that will die before they ever download it? Fingers crossed.