Modern Life Is Rubbish
July 9, 2009 • 5:13 pm • POSTED BY Jim WallsHot on the heels of this article in Time yesterday on the perils of your parents joining Facebook (featuring myparentsjoinedfacebook.com, which will surely have a book deal in 3,2,1…) comes this crackling chestnut of a e-mail from my Mother, gently touching down in my inbox under the wispy subject “why not?”:
So my Mom has finally confirmed what my coworkers have known for quite some time: I rank somewhere between Rush Limbaugh and Jeffrey Dahmer on the jerk scale.
My grandmother is on Facebook, and I’m friends with her. Your mom and my grandma should become friends. Her name’s Doris Flanagan.
This reminds me of a conversation I had with my mom recently. Mom, “Sarah, will you help me set up a facebook account. Some of the ladies at work are on it now.”
Me, “no, no, no, no, no, no, no, noooooooooooooooooooooooooo.”
James Walls you should be ashamed of your self. So you can be friends with some kid that was in your HS English class that you haven’t spoken to in over 20 years, but you won’t accept a friend request from your own mother. The shame. The shame.