Social Media/Family
Parents We Know Kicked Their 18-Year-Old Son Out of The House After Posting Happy Family Photos on Instagram
Pictures may be worth a thousand words, but they may also hide a thousand secrets.
It’s often difficult to see the real story behind any given photo. With the invention of social media, it’s even more so. Those of us who scroll social media at least once a day are usually inundated with someone’s happy-looking family photos.
Our family is friendly with a family whose son is close to our son. They’ve been friends since 4th grade and are both now 18 years old. My husband and I certainly aren’t best friends with this boy’s parents but we are definitely on a friendlier acquaintance level.
As most teenagers do, this 18-year-old friend of our son has a pretty active Instagram page, as does his mother. Both of their Instagram pages consistently display oodles of pictures of the whole family, smiling, laughing, playing around, and just having a grand old time. In fact, for a teenager’s Instagram, it was surprising to see so many family pictures posted. Many of the teens I know rarely post family pictures at all.
