Now my mom has started Facebooking

I don't know who did it, but someone taught my mom how to instant message people through Facebook. I have Facebook IM delivered through Adium, my open-source IM client for the Mac, and was surprised to have Vicky Asay (aka "Mom") blistering me with IMs about politics and family at 7:30 AM.

My mom ("mother," for the Northeasterners reading this :-) lives in Argentina and feels a bit disconnected from her family at times. No more.

My computer time will never be the same. Nor will Facebook. The fact that my mom has discovered how to use it to keep up with her kids tells me that it has gone very mainstream indeed.

Disclosure: Despite being an ardent conservative, I voted for Obama, too. So don't castigate me for my comment above. :-)

[botchagalupe]

This is why I love your blog. I love the way you intermix cutting edge wasup tech stuff and then squeeze in a family or off topic story now and then. A lot of times I question if I should be doing this kind of stuff on my blog. Then I read entries like this and I remember who taught me how to do it.

Thanks

[sftechwriter]

Hey, my mom just joined Facebook yesterday! She hasn't figured out IM yet, but she has already posted unflattering photos of me. Just as long as she doesn't dig any out from junior high, we'll be o.k.