ALBANY, NY - A father's facebook response to his daughter's complaints has created quite a stir on the internet.
It all started when a 15-year-old North Carolina girl posted a letter on Facebook complaining about her parents.
Her father went on to record a video rebuttal, and in turn, posted it on his daughter's Facebook.
What Tommy Jordan didn't expect is the video would go viral, with now almost two million views on YouTube, and hundreds of thousands of shares on Facebook by people across the country.
"This is for my daughter Hannah, and more importantly for all her friends on Facebook who thought her little rebellious post was cute," says Jordan in the video.
Jordan starts off the video by reading his daughter's letter, titled "To my Parents".
He reads how his daughter complains about doing her chores, how she should be paid for doing them, and how strict of a father he is.
"I have no idea how I have a life. I am going to hate to see the day when you get too old to wipe your ***** and you call me to help. I won't be there. Signed, your pissed kid, Hannah."
Jordan then responds.
"I don't know how to say how disappointed I am in you, and how disrespectful you were to every adult in your life, but kid, you've got it easy, way easy, but it's about to get a whole lot harder, today."
Jordan then shoots the laptop a total of nine times.
NEWS10 ABC's Taryn Fitsik spoke with local psychologist Dr. Frank Doberman about Jordan's actions.
"When you see this video, 8 minutes long, it really conveys a huge amount of hurt and disappointment, and sadness, but it looks like anger," says Dr. Doberman.
Dr. Doberman says what both Jordan and his daughter were not prepared for, was the role technology would play in the whole ordeal.
"The problem is it then blurs the lines of public and private discussion, what should be a family discussion, what shouldn't we be doing in public," he says.
"I understand his frustration as a parent, but I totally disagree with how he reacted to it," says Diane Kircher of Saratoga Springs.
Kircher and her teenage son Zach think both are at fault.
"I think what he did was vengeful, rather than a learning and teaching experience," says Diane.
"I get that kids get mad at their parents, but you probably shouldn't get mad on Facebook," adds her son Zach.
"Hope you've enjoyed your little fiasco on Facebook, hope it was worth all this," says Jordan in the final seconds of his video.
NEWS10 ABC received a ton of feedback from our viewers about the video.
Wendi Tuthill writes, "The daughter clearly has no respect for the parents. I understand the dad being upset, but did he really address the situation correctly? No!"
In another comment, Beth Strong writes, "He is watching his child and her activity on the internet, gives her responsibilities, and gives her consequences for her actions, which are not qualities I see in a lot of parents these days."
On Jordan's own Facebook page, which is public, he says he won't be doing any interviews.
He says there are too many other real issues out there that could use the attention.
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