The Onion Review:

I have never heard of TheOnion.com before this assignment, and now, just in these past few days, I’ve been hooked. The articles, videos, and stories are truly hysterical and they really know how to take one small piece of current events and turn it into a satirical ‘laugh-out-loud’ newspaper article. The funniest story I saw on The Onion, was the video called “Facebook, Twitter Revolutionizing How Parents Stalk Their College-Aged Kids”- of a daily morning news talk show, called The Onion News Network-Today Now!, guest starring a desperate mother wanting to know everything about her sons college life. It is so silly how this mother describes how to use Facebook and how she checks out her son’s pictures during his college experience with girls and at parties. The talk show host ends off the program with sarcasm and mockery by saying: “Now the only excuse to not stalking your son’s life, is having a life of your own.” It was very humorously and entertainingly played out.

This story sets out to reinforce how ridiculous and comical it is that parents are so disconnected with teenagers college-life reality these day. It also puts across how desperate some mothers are to being directly involved in their children’s lives that they resort to Facebook and Twitters to “keep an eye” on their children.