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NER: My grandma wants to be my friend on facebook

This seems so weird to me. She is in her mid 70's. I mean, she adapted to the computer age pretty easily (take that McCain) but still, facebook??!! While she is a registered Dem, I think she is actually very conservative, and she is also a devout catholic and I have things on my facebook I'm not sure I really want my grandma to see....

Anyone else have this trouble?

 

Re: NER: My grandma wants to be my friend on facebook

  • Limited Profile.  And your grandma's young!  Mine's 90.
  • My nearly 60 year old father is my facebook friend. I find it odd. I nearly fell out of my chair when I saw the friend request.

    That said, I primarily use facebook as a professional networking tool, so I am careful to not have any objectionable content on there to begin with.

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  • My objectionable content includes SNL clips and scathing articles about Palin's qualifications. Lol.

    She might be late 70s? I don't know really, she doesn't reveal her age. But yes, she is young. I still have 3 out of 4 of my grandparents alive. And for most of my life I had 3 great grandparents alive too. It helps to be first born of two first borns. 

  • Wow, grandma uses Facebook, nice.

    My dad is on Facebook, I think just to keep an eye on his kids/be more involved in our lives. Sweet but annoying, so like a pp said, limited profile, baby.

  • My grandmother is also mid 70's and she has probably never heard of Facebook. She thinks the computer is a waste of time and that people who spend time on it "need to get a life!"

    Getting a life meaning working outside in the evenings and cleaning the house. Wink

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  • That's pretty funny. I'm friends with my Dad on Facebook, but that's as old as my friends get.

    I think I'd just ignore it if you don't want to allow her access. You can tell her it must have ended up in your junk mail if she asks. You can also choose exactly what she's able to see and not see if you do accept.?

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  • Crap, and I thought I was too old for facebook!  It's very funny, and sort of cute.

  • My grandmother is legally blind, so no facebook for her. ?Very, very weird!!
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  • neither of my grandmas have computers, so, ha.
  • The fact that your grandmother uses facebook makes her awesome.

    Set up a limited profile and add her!  That is SO cute.  You have to.  I'm jealous, I want my grandmother on Facebook.

  • This is the exact reason I encourage my mother not to join facebook. ?I don't want to be her friend.
  • I sincerely doubt my 88-year-old grandma has heard of facebook.

    I'm facebook friends with my uncle. I almost kept him in limbo, but he's the type that would send me "why haven't you friended me yet" emails like 3 days after he sent the request so I decided to just friend him and get it over with.

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