There is nothing more lame than following your parents on social media.

At least, that is what many people think. (mainly teenagers and full on hipsters).

Sure, when you are at an impressionable age, most things to do with parents are perceived as lame and uncool.

But there are also many people who have embraced social media or online communications, as a way to reconnect with their parents and other family members. Now you can reach out and share all things good and bad, faster and with more details than you could via the phone or letters.

Twitter, Skype, Facebook and emails have replaced the regular call home to mum, or a letter packed with photos of the kids.

Holiday photos are shared almost immediately via Flickr or Picasa.

Family gatherings are organised through Facebook events, Google calendars or email.

Overseas calls can be accompanied with vision, via webcams and Skype.

Technology is giving us ways to share and bring our families together, even as it simultaneously provides avenues to tear things apart.

Now, if I could just create an app to allow Mum to remotely do my washing.

(What? That is not callous.She misses doing it. I just know she does….)