When Grandma Joined Facebook – Old People on Social Media

This one hits hard. Not only do we have the profile picture of a befuddled grandfather changed to look like the camera is in the sink and he's about to do the dishes, but we also get the voice-to-text bonus. The thing about that particular technology is it can make anyone sound like they're touched in the head.

If you don't even know what your phone is doing, it's going to result in something like this – hilarious for everybody except the person that posted it. We hope he got to that picture of him right now, whatever he's looking for.

We aren't exactly sure what that first character is, but it looks a lot like the “thorn,” a letter from the Icelandic alphabet. It's pronounced "th", which means we have lots of people named Thorg on Facebook here. Except it's actually just one person. Thorg can never remember his login password, so every time he wants to see how his friends are doing, he creates a brand new account.

His birthday is on November 18th, which means everybody on his list gets half a dozen (or more) birthday notifications for the same person. Maybe it's just a clever way to make sure no one forgets.

A lot of those of “advanced wisdom,” as we enjoy calling them, have a problem picking up new things. Modern music is scary, modern movies are too fast, and modern advertising looks like a dystopian nightmare. That means that if one of them managed to figure something out, they're going to make sure everyone knows about it.

It's just like the saying goes – give a grandma some confetti, and she'll celebrate her day. Teach a grandma how to make unlimited confetti, and she'll celebrate every single day of her life. Even if it is only over text messages and only on one specific platform.

Sue just wanted to leave her impressions of her waffle maker – something that apparently not only makes waffles but grilled cheese and french toast. That's using your head, Sue. Juanita didn't like the way that Sue left her comment, however, since it was all in caps, and that's kind of a no-no on the internet.

Sue explains she has poor eyesight and also tells us a few things about Juanita. It seems like it comes out of nowhere a little bit, but Juanita was being pretty unfriendly while Sue was just trying to talk about her waffle maker.

Maybe it's been a little while since you've actually read a user agreement or privacy policy, but it can sometimes be really important to know what you're getting into. Maybe you don't have a lot of time to read those big things when you're just trying to sign up for a website or something, but there are those out there that want to make sure they know it all.

The woman who owns this phone, for some reason, took a copy of her phone's screen and printed out a page to make sure she could read it when she wanted. Dedication.

When it comes to emojis, it's like we've been sent back to the stone age. We're communicating with images instead of words. While kids seem to understand emojis like the back of their hand – they've been using them all their lives, after all – some older messages might not get the idea of some of them.

Also, they're pretty small, so those with poor eyesight might not have any idea what they're sending. This mom needed a little bit of an explainer from her daughter, and we wish we could see more because it is hilarious.

Trying to sell something online has been fraught with issues ever since it was introduced, and a lot of those issues continue to this day – mostly because the problem is actually people. Buying something on a social media site like Facebook is even harder, and this exchange is one of the obvious reasons why.

The person on the left seems to be a bit confused about the whole thing, at first interested in the dish rack and then totally lost about who is selling what. There's probably a good explanation for it, but this is still pretty funny.

Oh no! Not the attorney general! He already has so many other cases of...people communicating online with each other to deal with! Don't you just love that the person that opened the discussion is now getting snippy and aggravated just because the seller responded like a normal person? He or she didn't do anything rude or untoward at all – just gave a simple confirmation of availability.

And then the original person starts demanding to be left alone because they are sleeping. Now they had to go and drag the attorney general into it? We don't think it works that way.

We are in two camps here. The first is that this person needed to make a little announcement to all the members of her craft group that she won't be able to pick up any of their creations for a little while. She chose a happy picture because she didn't want to bum anybody out too much.

It was intentional. The other option is that she had no idea what she was doing but did want to tell others she had lost her job. She didn't mean to create such a cheery image to go along with the message; that's just what happened.

Your pancakes need a little bit of something? Coconut oil. Need to ease that sunburn? Coconut oil. Lubricant to get that last pesky bolt off of a car project? You already know the solution. Yes, coconut oil is truly our modern age's wonder substance, being able to do almost anything – even if you're online.

As far as one of these people knows, it can even be used to help you log out of Facebook. We can't tell if it would be funny if these two black blobs were different people or the same confused person.

Cameras aren't the simplest things in the world to use – especially since you can trigger them without knowing it now – but it's not like they're that tough, right? So why is it that so many people one might call “older” have such a hard time with them? Well, there are a lot of potential reasons.

What's hilarious about this image is not only the fact it's available for all to see online as his Facebook profile picture, it's the fact that he managed to put it there along with that corgi-fairy sticker!

Already we can sort of see what's going on in this picture, but there's a little more to the story. Grandma picks out a super fresh outfit, and the granddaughter in question wants to give Gma some props on Snapchat. She also texts her grandmother that same snap so that Grandma knows she did well.

Already we're at a couple of levels of technology, but then Grandma goes the extra distance and prints the picture out, eventually framing it. It's a cute story all around, without a doubt, but the picture of a printed-out picture that has texted from Snapchat is very...grandparent.

If Uncle Ed had just sent a Merry Christmas message accompanied by a Christmassy Spongebob Squarepants gif, that would have been one thing, but the story didn't end there. After about two hours of radio silence. Uncle Ed took matters into his own hands.

The nephews and nieces are not responding to his holiday well-wishes? He'll thank himself, thank you very much, and he'll do it in a way that will have everyone else hanging their heads in shame. In reality, there is probably a message that didn't get delivered to everybody or something like that, but still. Say it back, people.

The art of communication has been lost, it seems. Or, at least, no one is going to find it on Facebook Marketplace. Even if you've only dipped your toes into that stagnant water, you know that people are uncommunicative, rarely tell you what you want to know, and will send messages like this one, with little information and lots of questions.

The obvious question here is why did this person ask if it was available if he wasn't interested? Did another seller respond that much faster? It doesn't look like much time has passed. C'mon, Maurice – at least give us an explanation.

If you join a big group on Facebook, you're going to get a lot of notifications, and those can end up being annoying if you don't know what to do with them. However, there is a solution: you can silence your phone. Or, you could go into your settings and set the group to not send you notifications. We're pretty sure that's an option! But no, this person decided that neither of those options was good enough.

For him, the only way to get some good sleep is to leave the group. Honestly, there are worse things to do. Getting good sleep is super important.

Scott here is a little new to the whole thing, so let's walk him through everything. The Home Page is where people post angry things about news stories that end up being fake, so don't go there. Trust us. Your messages page is where you can talk directly to other people or entire groups of people. The group's section has lots of groups that you'll join and then regret joining almost immediately.

Finally, Facebook Marketplace is where you can ask if something is available, hear that yes, it is, ask when you can come to buy it, and then be told it's been sold already.

Facebook can be a little unintuitive to the uninitiated, but some people seem to have way more trouble with it than they should. This person accidentally asked the huge retail company Tesco what it was up to, and since it was a public forum, a couple of people responded. You know, just having a bit of a laugh.

The original poster just couldn't wrap her mind around Facebook and started demanding things of people she was in no place to demand. Before you start getting angry, take a step back to see if you're in the wrong. It will help with a lot of things.

Emojis, reactions, emoticons, whatever you want to call them, are a really handy part of the online age, with quick responses at people's fingertips and a quick way to display those complicated emotions that some people just can't put into words. Like “happy” or “sad.” This person was just trying to zoom in on a picture to get a better look at the cuteness, and Facebook decided it would be angry today.

This is the rare example of the system itself messing up while the old person was in complete control and even knew why it had happened.

This person wants a food bowl for his or her little pooch and wants to know if they have any that say Snickers on it. From what we know of this kind of seller, it's probably the kind of thing that you can customize, but explaining that to this person will likely take some time.

Why every word has to be its own little sentence fragment is quite beyond us, but we have a guess. It's possible that the person was trying to hit the spacebar – many systems will add a period if you hit it twice after a word.

We're...confused. Why leave a review if you've never been there? Why make that review one star instead of something more in the middle of the road? WHY LEAVE A REVIEW IF YOU'VE NEVER BEEN THERE?! And it isn't even like Pam loves leaving reviews – it says right in the picture that she has one review. It's that one, that review we're looking at. That's her one review.

Did she think she was being strong-armed into leaving a review for this place she had never been to? We can't think of a place that would do that, especially not, as this seems to be, Google.

These bits are killing us. This is like the kind of writing that you'd see if you turned on the TV back in the sixties – no fart jokes, no body shots, just clever gags that are perfect for the whole family. Of course, Martina didn't understand that a PM actually meant a private message.

That's a more modern development that has become popular in just a few years – sending entire corporations private messages has never been done before. Martina didn't get it, and she was already thinking about time, so she responded in the way that made the most sense.

We can't confirm the actual age of this person, but since he or she is going to study medicine for a few years, they're likely to be a bit younger than most of the other examples on this list. Just goes to show you can be old even if the calendar doesn't say so.

Anyway, this person left this personal, heartfelt, and well-meaning message as a comment on an article about a Nickelodeon child star, so we're not sure who is supposed to see it. Also, don't they have Facebook in England?

What a kind gesture, when you think about it – somebody lost their phone, which very well might be a huge part of their life, and someone else found it. How to get it back to the rightful owner? A message on a public forum where people might go looking, that's it.

But how to get their attention for this important issue? A big, bright, colorful image that has a guy with no hands celebrating a birthday. There, that should do it. Did the phone get back to its rightful owner? We don't know, but this was a good attempt anyway.

Margaret seems to like the Lake District a little bit too much if you get our meaning. A man died while he was out walking with some “friends” in the district, and then Margaret hops into the comments section to talk about how much she loves it? That would raise the eyebrows of even the greenest detective.

Time to make a stop at Margaret's flat and start asking the tough questions. Like, were you in the Lake District during a certain day, at a certain time, wielding a certain murder weapon?

Lots of people got their Facebook accounts hacked or manipulated back in the day, and we're sure that it still happens plenty today, but it was a big problem before other websites started vying for the top spot. Getting your Facebook hacked was common enough that it might have happened to you or a few people that you're friends with.

We guess that some people started finding it funnier than it should be, like this commenter. Was the cry-laughing emoji a mistake, or was this person just trying to cheer Kathy up? We may never know.

There are ways to make sure that the internet doesn't know every single little thing about you. In fact, it's probably a good idea not to have all that information out there for everybody to see – some accounts aren't as secure as others. This guy wanted to get that information off of Facebook – reasonable – and he just didn't know how he was supposed to do it.

You just ask it to do it, right? Hilariously, this is more or less what an Alexa is, but he was ahead of the times by a bit. Or, at least, asking the wrong computer.

This isn't just something that the elderly do, but it seems to happen to them a lot more often than others. We don't mean the poop thing, we mean sending a message to someone or posting on Facebook while you're trying to ask google something embarrassing.

This set of messages ends up being quite a bit more embarrassing than most other examples. We imagine this kind of cleanup is no easy task, so asking Google is a good idea. Make sure that you are actually asking Google, though.

It's been said that grandparents really sort of need their grandkids. At the same time, grandchildren sometimes really need their grandparents – the people that will bake them cookies and tell them stories and help them out. We love to see the communication between the generations.

A grandchild sends an emoji of a chicken's head exploding for some reason, and Grandma is ready to laud her grandbaby with respect for being such a creative person. But Grandma, why is the exploding chicken head cute? Go on, Grandma. Tell us.

There are a lot of people on Facebook, and we guess that might even mean there are some smart people on Facebook, too, but we have yet to see any evidence. Still, asking a question on Facebook is bound to get you some kind of response that might be helpful.

This grandma needed to renew her driver's license, so...she just posted that on FB. We can't even see this small detail, but apparently, the grandma then liked her own post. Well, at least she had her own back.

The grandma of this entry was doing nothing less than sending some good wishes to some cousins on their anniversary. What a sweet old lady. Good job, Grandma. Uh, and then she added a picture of a bald Asian man looking really worried about something. Why? We don't know. Grandma doesn't know either.

Apparently, she added that picture and wasn't even aware of it. Like, she had no idea the picture was even there. Somehow she was able to add that very specific image to the post, and she wasn't in control of it in any way.

Things are complicated these days. New important information is always popping up, even if it is only important information to weirdos on Twitter. Mary's just trying to figure everything out – what does she need to be worried about? Anything or everything? It's a good thing Mary (that would be the same Mary) is also trying to figure things out.

At least she didn't accidentally like her own post. That would just be the icing on top of this old person's internet cake. The only kind of old-person cake that is acceptable.

Sometimes you just can't even anymore. Sometimes you just can't even at all. There is no more to even with at all. Whoever this is has decided that these fancy smartphone things just aren't going to work out. Check out those three text messages and try to say that whoever this is has the skills to improve.

We think that he or she should probably just go back to writing letters by hand. Actually, maybe we all should. It's become a lost art.

The older generations have a lot of wisdom to impart to the younger generations, but we're not sure if this example qualifies. There are probably a lot of better places to pick up a tuna sub than Subway. Maybe there is some sort of brilliance behind this simple statement.

Maybe Grandma is telling us that the solution to some of life's problems is nothing more than a bit of comfort food from your favorite sandwich shop. A tuna sub might be a bit of an odd choice, but we guess some people really like it.

Just because you have an internet connection and a Facebook account doesn't mean that you're ready for all the super, super weird stuff that can go on in the dark corners. Or even the well-lit corners these last couple of years. Still, the best part about the internet is you have all the control.

You only have to follow the accounts that you like, join the groups you like, and friend the people you like. If you end up not liking those things, you can back out just as fast. The power is in your hands.

Grandmas and grandpas might not use social media and the internet the exact same way we all do it, and maybe that's for the best. What other kind of person would think it's the right idea to post a picture of her smile on the internet every day?

Kids might think that they have to do all their makeup and post full selfies, but only a grandma will think that all the internet needs to see is the smile – and only the smile. You can't even see the nose in this image, but we can all see that big, beautiful smile.

This story starts with a grandchild wishing a grandma a happy birthday, and immediately (we're talking that's the very next thing) the grandmother drops a squirrel that is squared up and ready to rumble against an opposing street gang, an invasion of armed toughs, or anything else.

Grandma just wanted to know when she was going to get a visit from the grandkids, and she posted a picture that had the words she wanted. The words might not be saying exactly what she thinks, but it's a pretty close guess.

Copy/paste is one of the premium technological tools. You can take huge amounts of text and transfer it to a different article with just a few clicks or move a picture around, and there are even files that you can organize in a flash. But still, there are some people that have a hard time getting the hang of things.

We don't know what exactly this person was trying to do, but it certainly didn't work. Amazingly, just typing the word “paste” got this person nothing worthwhile. You take it correctly that it didn't work.

We don't know exactly what's going on here, but it clearly didn't turn out the way anybody was hoping. This person was trying to type...well, we're not sure what he or she was trying to type. It wasn't "friend", certainly, but it's pretty hard for us to figure out what it is that was supposed to be there.

Autocorrect has gotten all of us at one point or another, but we aren't even really sure what is supposed to be here. Or is this person saying that he or she didn't want a single word there at all?

While lots of people have it down to a t, screenshotting your phone is still not the easiest thing. You have to have a certain amount of physical dexterity. This person, whoever it is, must not know exactly what you can do with a phone. He or she has...taken a picture with the phone, then taken a picture of that picture, and then posted the picture as part of an item that is being sold.

We feel like there could have been a better way to do it. Also, wow, they must really want to get rid of that lawnmower.

We're going to do our best to figure out what's happening here. Obviously, this person probably shouldn't have posted this weirdo status, but it got posted anyway, and now here we are. The leading guess that we have is that this person's touchpad is malfunctioning, and guess which key keeps getting triggered by accident.

There are actually a few words in there, but it's not like anything legible is included. In fact, the only things that are more than just conjunctions or something like that are the word “kid” and the word “index.” And we don't think that means anything.

This strange picture has a lot to take in, and worst of all is the fact that Mrs. Smith can't seem to string together a single sentence that looks good. We know that typing on the phone can sometimes be a bother, and maybe you just don't want to have to deal with backspacing and retyping stuff, but it's not that hard on a computer. 

Even if you aren't fast, you can hunt and peck the keys and make something that is at least legible. Did people lose all their spelling and grammar skills as soon as the internet hit?

Air fryers do seem to be surprisingly popular on Facebook, but maybe that's because they're quite handy. You can fry stuff. But, you know, with air. They're able to make food a lot healthier, and they aren't that expensive. But apparently, not everybody is a fan of them!

This person, for instance, doesn't want to see them anymore on his or her home page. Instead, this person begs others to take to private messages or form a group or something because there are just too many air fryers all over the place.

“I don't know how to post,” she says in the post. So either she's a liar, or she's a lot smarter than she realizes. However, we have to give some props to this lady since she's at least being quite positive about the whole thing. She might not know how all this new-fangled social media gobbledygook works, but she still likes what she can find when she logs on.

We wonder what kind of group this is. Knitting? Baking? Air fryer appreciators? There are tons of groups on FB, so this really could be anything. Trampolines, maybe.

Okay! Fine! You prefer Texas Roadhouse! We hear that there are lots of great things about that restaurant, but that doesn't give you carte blanche to go dissing Manny's Steakhouse! Carte Blanche is, for the record, a steakhouse in Texas. Just so we're all on the same page.

Also, maybe this person is right to yell about Texas Roadhouse – at least that place hasn't raised the prices like Manny's. Ah, who are we kidding? Everybody's raising prices these days. That's just the way things go. Anyway, please stop yelling.

Oh. Well. Sorry about that. Didn't mean to, uh, make it sound like I was happy about that. In fairness to the first person, it's a little hard to tell exactly what is going on in the attached story, which was apparently, “We are no longer looking for our missing person. We would like to thank the public for their assistance."

We don't think it's unfair for someone to think that's good news! But, just like always, the person probably didn't read the entire article. It turns out the missing person wasn't found alive and well. That is, obviously, not wonderful news.

Sure, we get it. There are a lot of people out there that don't appreciate cuss words that much. Hey, there are people of all stripes. This grandma wasn't interested in seeing them, but she also thought that they were being sent directly to her. Her grandbaby very gently corrected her, saying that it wasn't directed to Grandma, it was just a public post.

Grandma Rose still wants to figure out if there's a way for FB to stop sending her such filthy, filthy messages. There is – you can exempt certain friends from seeing your posts.

We can barely keep up with all those greetings! We have to respond to each one, one at a time, so we'll be done in about thirty minutes. Button mashing doesn't really work as well on phones as it does on a keyboard. You can't just slap your hand on the phone and get a big bunch of unintelligible words.

The phone tries to make something out of them, and we get stuff like this. Whether it was intentional but badly done or these messages came from a pocketed phone, we've all gotten some of these messages.

Yes, that picture would certainly fulfill the criteria of teaching counting and giving a child nightmares, but look closer. This sculpture(?) doesn't even have the number eight on it. One through seven, and then it goes straight to a... musical note? We feel like that's a pretty big mistake in something that is supposed to TEACH COUNTING. And then, of course, a comment that makes absolutely no sense.

Unless someone else that sees the comment has just lost their beloved white male poodle. Overall, this a pretty good post, and one that certainly belongs on this list and in your nightmares.

We're pretty sure that Tramp is another, different cat that was owned by someone in the family. Or some other pet. And then Mom drops a sneaky side-eye emoji that makes us think she had a little more to do with the cat's death than she's letting on.

We don't even know what she could be TRYING to communicate with that sort of emoji. Was she looking at new cats to get Jenny? Is that supposed to be a sad face? Did Mom not like the cat, and is glad it's gone? There are too many options.

The Harrisburg Senators are a minor league team that hails from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. They're the Double-A affiliate of the Washington Nationals, which is about as close to real power as they get. Ethel really wanted to make sure people knew her stance on the matter, so she tweeted this same all-caps screed about preventing voter fraud to everybody she came across on Twitter.

Well, as long as there's only one noisy weirdo during election season on that platform, that's all right. (Checks Twitter) Oh noo........