Facebook Friends
Ah yes, parents and technology. Most of the time, they don’t mix. Sometimes they probably shouldn’t mix, but they do anyway. My mom probably falls under the later category. For some reason, she’s better than your average parent on using technology (I hear tell of some parents who don’t even know how to answer cell phones… Even flip phones). She’s discovered a bit of the web through some way or another, from Craigslist to Gmail to Facebook and in fact she’s probably even reading this right now.
Anyhow, for a long time she had not too many friends, two of which were her friend’s dogs (Why do people even make Facebook profiles for their dogs? Isn’t there a dogbook out there for just such a purpose?). But now since she’s discovered Scrabulous and its off-shoots, she’s made many more friends from around the world (which she readily beats to a pulp in online Scrabble). Mom, I hope all fifteen-hundred of your games are going well, and I hope you never have to friend your friend’s chihuahuas again.
September 9th, 2008 at 7:42 am
I have a catbook, where my cats are facebook friends with other people’s cats
September 9th, 2008 at 11:50 am
nice! i’m going to send some pokes to her today!
September 9th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
O.o People make Facebook accounts for their pets? And even worse, there’s actually a system which encourages this? *laments* I’m so confused!
September 9th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Heeeeyyyyy – I have Catbook, too – in fact my kitty is friends with Bree’s kitties. ^.^
September 9th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Hey guys… I have no problem whatsoever with catbook. that’s fine to keep your kitty obsessions to yourself. But i think it’s weird when people make actual fb profiles for pets… i mean the whole point of fb is to have updates/messaging abilities with all your friends, and pets don’t really enter into it.
but using fb for pet photos and stuff like that is probably a better way to incorporate pet stuff
September 10th, 2008 at 10:52 am
…people make *actual* FB pages for their pets…. oh my… (was not aware)
September 10th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
my mother doesn’t have a facebook, but mike’s does. she friended me and sent me a message and i felt bad when i didn’t respond right away.
my mom just gmail chats and skypes all the time. she’s hip, i swear.
September 17th, 2008 at 10:15 am
The fact that facebook has integrated into intarnetz culture enough that you kids are calling it “fb” on here both surprises and saddens me.
September 17th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
wow, i didn’t realize that i would be a hedgehog with a mask thingie too! how can u tell the diff. between me and u?
btw, i am up to 25 friends now!! yeah!!
July 17th, 2009 at 6:00 am
[...] It’ll come as no surprise that Facebook, Digg, MySpace and YouTube are a few of the most highly visited sites but the men who were being the research were shocked by how little of the internet was explored by the average user. Comparisons were made to village life – although we may have hundreds of ‘friends’ on social networking sites, we actually only keep in touch regularly with a few of those. [...]
April 4th, 2011 at 9:43 pm
its funny because my mum is unstoppable in gaming (which my friends and my siblings friends think is crackup that she even plays games) but when it comes to sending a simple txt the buttons jst seem to confuse her lol