My Mitchell’s Plain Aunty is Loving Facebook!
My sister phoned me Thursday to catch up on family gossip.
During the course of the conversation she asked: “…are you friends with Joe* on Facebook?”
“Who?” I asked.
“Stephanie’s* son.”
“Oh,” I replied. “No.”
She went on to explain that Joe, a second cousin had cut ties with the family.
“How do you know this?” I wanted to know.
“Aunty Maxine* told mum.” she said. “She said it was on Facebook.”
Apparently my aunty told my mother that Facebook keeps her in touch with the ‘children’.
I further questioned how my 70+ year old aunty who doesn’t own (nor does she want to own) a computer and who thinks the internet is evil, get access to Facebook.
My sister didn’t know, so while we chatted she logged on to Facebook to investigate.
None of my aunty’s children or grandchildren are friends with Joe, she discovered.
We were baffled.
“Request Joe to add you as a friend,” she told me.
“If I don’t know him, how will he know me,” I reasoned.
So my sister became friends with my second cousin and got the whole story on his wall!
“You better watch what you write on your wall.” I told my sister.
“Aunty Maxi loves to skinder.”
*names have been changed ’cause who knows what will happen to me if my Mitchell’s Plain aunty gets word of this blog.
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One Response to “My Mitchell’s Plain Aunty is Loving Facebook!”
By Po on Feb 23, 2010 | Reply
Hehe the older generation are a hazard on the interwebs! Nothing is safe.