A hair metal anthem for all those mothers on Facebook
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March 20, 2010 at 1:00pm
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This is GREAT!
ROCK ON
You’re right, Daphne.
Facebook is no place to be for people above the age of 40. At that age, people, and women in particular, should spend their free time doing more worthwhile activities like reading and socialising in real terms, not virtually.
Facebook is no place for backward Maltese ladies: they should spend more time with their family. I find it almost sacrilegious for a mother to meet up with her son or daughter online, when they should be meeting at home over dinner or over a good cup of tea.
Keep up the good work, Daphne. Middle aged women should be discouraged from using Facebook, Twitter, Hi-5 and other social networking tools, and you’re telling us very plainly why.
JoeM like most things, Facebook is not the problem. It’s the incorrect use of it which can embarrass you or even land you in trouble. Someone who is a jerk in online networks most probably is a jerk in offline networks too.
You’re a man ahead of your times, I’m in awe.
“At that age, people, and women in particular, should spend their free time doing more worthwhile activities like reading and socialising in real terms, not virtually.”
The same can be said for the younger generation. They should also give a helping hand at home and get a part-time job to stop leeching off their parents. JoeM, you’re such a twat, but I’m sure you’ve been told that before.
@JoeM – What about middle-aged men?
They’re joining LGBT Labour on Facebook. And ‘looking for friendship’.
Who says?! As long as one enjoys what one is doing and harming no other person…yeah why not! One does not need a Facebook account to riducle himself/herself. Just walk in the main streets of our city and towns and you will know what I am talking about. What you are saying is, that once someone passes forty, it’s all downhill and they should not be seen or heard.
What next? Maybe we can dump all those over sixty in a closed room and forget about them. Some of you people make me want to puke.
hahaahahahah —- this was great!
I saw this video this morning and it reminded me of your article.
At least the mother in this video has a photo with cupcakes, and clothes on.
Yep. It sure beats a kejk tan-nejk and a miniskirt hands down.
And this is why I never pressed ‘accept’ to my mum’s friend request. The horror!
Amazing video – every child’s worst nightmare.
@ JoeM – The video mimics the worst case scenario of mothers (and fathers) embarrassing their sons and daughters by stalking and otherwise making “modern age inappropriate” comments and gestures in public spaces on the internet. Please crawl back under the rock you came from and consider disconnecting your internet connection – or even better please expend your energy on teaching your (female or male) friends about boundaries when it comes to interacting with their children’s cyberlives.
@Piero
The worst case scenario is a magistrate-mum flaunting her web of friends of friends on Facebook!
@JoeM
“Middle aged women should be discouraged from using Facebook”
What about middle-aged men?
I agree with you: middle aged women should be discouraged from using Facebook…….. and from taking any notice of patronising men.
Like everything else, Facebook is good or bad depending on how you use it. I had FB before my teenaged children, and they invited me to befriend them when they caught up with me and not vice versa. Not that we ever use it to chat, though. And not that I would ever spy on them using FB. And a definite no-no is putting up personal or potentially embarrassing stuff (for me or for them) for public view. Used decently, unlike madame she-who-should-not-be-named-otherwise-she-might-sue-us, FB is harmless and can actually be fun. I actually picked up playing Scrabble again…
You’re all way too uptight about FaceBook – it’s just a communication tool. Don’t do anything stupid and you won’t embarrass yourself. On the other hand, do dumb things and look dumb. QED
ABC:
Facebook is not a communication tool. The technology it employs is no different to what drives the rest of the Web. What does Facebook offer that email does not? In terms of technology, nothing. It’s just another social space for microcasting inanities.
What Facebook offers is a different mode of communication. The technology of clothing is almost uniform, yet the variety of ways that it can communicate information about the wearer is great. By making Facebook your choice mode of communication when you are in your middle age, you are telling all those ‘present’ on the site that you wish to join their group, with all its mores and memes. It’s the equivalent of a teenage girl’s mother turning up at her daughter’s party in a denim mini skirt.
If you want to communicate with your peers, there are other ways to do that. Please do not invade our space – at worst you can join LinkedIn. It’s where all the over fifties are at.
I agree with Andrew 100 percent.
… on this point ….
As I see it if you have a normal parent-child relationship with your parents (and also have a life)- things like this are ought to happen. It’s not a matter of doing dumb things but it’s brought because of the generation gap.
Well said, Andrew.
I loathe Facebook and I don’t use it myself. But this is a fair comment. Live and let live.
Are all the people who ‘agree with Andrew’ middle-aged?
In usual Maltese fashion, all are tarred with one brush. My mum is on facebook and with her living abroad, it’s a great tool for keeping in touch. She doesn’t accept invites from people she doesn’t know (she can spot a creep a mile off) and she can even tell a virus from a spam mail.. Wow eh ? Point being… like everything else in modern life, there’s good, there’s bad and there’s indifferent.
And Joe M, you’re a prat. If i didn’t have facebook to chat with me mum, it would be a lot more distant… don’t be so pedantic as to presume that every mother in the world is an interfering old bag… You probably believe that come 40, women should stop shagging their husband and take up ganutell or devote their time to saying the rosary to prevent the sins of those who have an avatar extension of themselves. Grow up mate.
I don’t think Daphne is saying anyone should stop using anything because of simple demographics. What she is saying is that people should know what they are doing if they are going to use something. Put quite simply – would you use gelignite – on your doorstep with a captive audience to defrost a piece of bread, proceed to tell everyone how you did it, post an album, comment about it – then run off to fertilize your field ? If you’re 40, saggy, starting to wrinkly and round in the wrong places – don’t bloody well share !
missed a bit – become wrinkly
That IS funny, Michael…… and Bocca ? right, as always.
Get a real life facebook is for everybody and there is no age limitation used wisely gives good results used bad than you know.
There is always il hdura of baby daphe and here klan.
When are you going to comment on that PN politition mentioned in court last thursday where is your truth baby come on get out and speak lol if he was a labour person you would had written millions of articles full of hdura.
Aw Tony, better get a life qalbi.
Before they take you away.
To JoeM:-
Joe,….in my opinion, it is you and your narrow mindedness that is backward, not Maltese women on Facebook :)
[Daphne – Suzanne, if all Maltese women on Facebook were like you, Mount Carmel would need to build an extension to accommodate all the obsessive whackos and stalkers. Get a grip on yourself. When I last looked you were 50 not 15. I guess all that LSD you took 30 years ago shrivelled the bit of brain you were born with. To all those people who don’t know what this is about: Suzanne Muscat (her real name, to show you just how crazy she is) is my brand new cyber stalker, with a fixation to match that of the weird men who used to ring me at all hours of the day and night and send me letters with FuNNy tYpeWRiting. After months of using her own name and Facebook profile to slag me off all over Facebook, mixing with the freaks from Imperium Europa and the Labour Party to do it, she decided to up the ante by creating several fake Facebook profiles to obsess about me on other people’s ‘walls’, her own, and in Facebook groups. When I rang her a couple of days ago to give her a piece of my mind for being so damned stupid and to tell her to grow up because this isn’t a game – the last time I was subjected to that kind of internet negativity, I woke up at 3am to find my house on fire – she blabbed and blustered. And one day later there was a new fake profile which she had created, again for the express purpose of slagging me off. Some people just can’t see when their behaviour has slipped from mere bitching into sick obsession. And that’s quite apart from the seriously weird, misspelled and cracked comments she took to posting some weeks ago on this blog at 4am. Now here she is, as though nothing has happened, posting innocuous comments and trying to join in. In a minute she’ll be off to Facebook again, to tell her freakish friends who crawled out of some slum gutter that I’m doing to Labour supporters what Hitler did to the Jews and that I should – her caps and exclamation marks – BURN IN HELL!!!!! Why don’t you give Astrid a call, Suzanne? You’ve both got a long time to kill before Tigne Beach opens for the summer. And here’s a friendly tip: don’t allow anyone to take pictures of you at drunken ‘ladies’ lunches because they’ll only post them on Facebook, as someone recently did. I must say that you all look ridiculous: a bunch of desperate women in their 50s wondering where their life went and whether they might possibly get it back if they behave like they’re 28. So, so sad – loser behaviour.]
Slam dunk
Unfortunately Daph, people like her exist. Just don’t give these stalkers pleasure by replying back. Stalkers and perverted creeps should BURN IN HELL!!!! (using her own words).
[Daphne – She happens to be somebody I know and occasionally bump into socially, which makes her behaviour crazier, but also made it necessary for me to ring her and ask what her problem is.]
Does Suzanne Muscat know what she’s doing? She might be unable to see that her behaviour isn’t normal.
Facebook sucks anyway! (forty something speaking here!) Twitter is the new Facebook!
OMG – This Suzanne woman. Sewwa jghidu li l-imgienen barra qedin!
Get a life all of you
@ james
Yes why not james…like using the net to browse nudies?!
How about: ‘My mom has a blog (on which she slags other moms’?
Ippubblikaha cowgirl
Would that be ‘other moms who hold a position of public trust and who systematically undermine it by their own behaviour’, or ‘other moms who break the rules they are appointed to uphold’? Maybe you mean ‘other moms who expect to take decisions that affect our lives but believe they are immune to criticism’?
Or perhaps you’re talking about ‘other moms who post crazed messages inciting vigilante action’?
Being a ‘mom’ doesn’t not afford anyone special protection against criticism, though it does seem to heighten the sensitivity of some.
“Giving complete strangers access to our innermost thoughts, hopes and peccadilloes provides them with information which they can use to study us and to manipulate or blackmail us. The saddest aspect of it all is that this is a problem entirely of our own making. Big Brother isn’t the problem – our penchant for exhibitionism is.” ( http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20081026/opinion/the-naked-generation )
True. So why is everyone now kicking up a fuss about what’s said about their ‘private’ lives which they themselves have made public?
Hi Daphne!
We’re glad to hear you listen in to the Big Drive Home on Xfm 100.2. We featured this song last week. Are you on Facebook too? If you are, where are our friend requests young lady?!
Keep the gossip coming!
We love you!
Jay and Lee
[Daphne – I’m not on Facebook.]