Fun & Famous
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR PARENTS (IN-LAWS) GO SOCIAL
Oh, how I love this subject. Just mention it at a boring work party and you’ll spend the rest of the night enjoying tons of anecdotes. The parents on social media stories I hear here at our Amayzine HQ aren’t bad either. Here they are. And FYI, we all love our parents dearly you know. So it’s all just a bit of innocent banter.
1. One of our moms whose identity shall remain disclosed is truly dedicated in commenting on and liking EVERY picture we post on social media.
2. Another anonymous mother-in-law can’t handle Facebook Messenger’s green ‘who’s online’ indication. Once during a family feud, she saw her daughter-in-law go offline two seconds after she got online herself. Mmm.
3. Why don’t parents, in-laws and grandparents know that everyone can read what they comment? Cutesy nicknames are a no go. Just like sharing personal information is. Someone I know worked at an insurance company and she hated it there. During her office farewell drinks, someone took a picture and it ended up on Facebook. And what did mom comment on the pic? ‘I’m so happy for you, finally leaving that place!
4. Also not done: blasting people in the picture. I know a story of someone who worked alongside a well-known Dutch presenter. She innocently posted a photo of the two of them on Facebook and she was horrified when she saw the comment section. A comment from her mother-in-law: ‘You’re not seriously working for that asshole, are you?’ Riiiiight. How do I even begin to explain to her how bad this is? Total black-out, I can tell ya that much.
”So if that’s not funny enough, she also comments regularly on editor in question’s pictures. ‘What a cute pic. Kisses, your mom.’”
5. One of our editor’s moms is on Instagram. She has two followers (editor in question and her sister). So if that’s not funny enough, she also comments regularly on editor in question’s pictures. ‘What a cute pic. Kisses, your mom.’ And the editor in question doesn’t think it’s funny. At all. But it’s sweet though. It’s sweet.
6. One editor’s mom share EVERYTHING her daughter posts on her timeline. And I mean everything. Not entirely necessary.
7. There’s also someone with a pet (dog or cat, who knows? The animal in question wishes to remain unidentified). Back to the anecdote: this editor’s mom comments on every picture of said animal: proud grandmother!
8. We also deal with the occasional Whatsapp message that makes absolutely no sense at all. Think: you casually invite your dad for your birthday on Whatsapp and he responds with some kind of inside joke that takes you hours to decode: is the man coming or not? To the point you don’t even know what to text back.
