When people of a certain age encounter the Web.

[camrogers]

A: "Like I said, I'm not really wedded to Diigo. I've played around with it because someone in Darwin said it was cool. It might be cool if you're into Social Bookmarking."
P: "It's amazing just how much we can share on the web."
C: "Yes, I've been meaning to talk to you about that."

It reminded me of something DK told me about a very sweet friend of his.  She's late middle-aged, a church-goer, mother of two grown kids, heavily involved in helping out at the local school, does a lot of work for charity, and one of her kids finally got her introduced to the internet.  She then proceeded to rave to DK about this amazing thing called Facebook, and how he simply had to get onto it and how you can do all these incredible things with it.  He nodded and listened and gave her a few pointers.

Three days later he gets a bulk email from her, inviting every single person in her address book to friend her.  Unfortunately what she actually said was:  "Hello everyone!  Please come on my Face!"

I couldn't get my head around how anyone could possibly have phrased it quite like that, but she did.  He sent her a quick email, and got a mortified, panicked response.  She'd sent the thing, non-BCC'd, to everyone: her husband, her kids, her neighbours, the principal of the local school, her priest.

I have no idea how it played out, but man I felt sorry for her in between bouts of laughing myself blue.

Comments

[greylock.livejournal.com]

I would only have laughed louder if the word 'bukkake' had been used somewhere.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

Actually, on that theme: http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/6778417_VVkNj#434317751_3vcmi

[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm sure that seemed funny at the time. In that room. With the two of them. At some point. Not sure I understand why it's become an annual whateveritis.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

I had never seen it before the other day.
I laughed for about 5 seconds.

[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

I think this is the second or third year PA's run it.

[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

She honestly did not have the first clue about what she had actually done, until Dmetri carefully explained his way around it to her.

Jaysis, I mean seriously. I have to ask him if he knows what happened next.

[p-cat.livejournal.com]

My mother, bless her innocence, used to call the television programme 'A Country Practice' 'A Cunty Prac'.

[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

o.O

I take it that obscenity wasn't her second language?

[p-cat.livejournal.com]

Oh no.

When I was a kid we took great delight in trying to make her say 'bollocks'. Now when she's really riled up she'll go as far as 'wanker', which makes me very proud.

[rosanegra.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, ROFL...I wonder if there is a whole website of anecdotes like that??