Your Mom
A few weeks ago my grandma asked me about Twitter (for whatever it’s worth) and over the last few months both my parents have gotten accounts. In thinking about this, it’s kind of a perfect platform for parents looking to keep up with their adult children. I realized in a conversation this morning that the answer to the common Twitter question, “who cares what I ate for breakfast?” is your mom. She wants to know that you stubbed your toe, ate a hamburger and went back and forth to Atlanta yesterday (the last actually happened). It’s exactly this sort of information that keeps you close to your loved ones (though obviously more detail would be nice, but that can always be provided in your other interactions).
Anyway, just thinking out loud.
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Couldn’t agree more. I didn’t have the lightbulb moment with Twitter until the first week I lived in NYC after moving over from Australia. The first time I managed to call home I started telling stories… than found out my family already knew them there.
Fast forward two years and my mum reckons she knows more about what I’m up to know, on the other side of the globe, than she ever did when I was 3 hours away at University.
I am a mom. We will always love to hear from our children, no matter what they are doing. We have been naturally twittering for years. Because as our children grew up 140 characters at a time is about all the information we ever received.
@Lynda: Hahahahah. That’s a good point.
A few weeks back I was working on finishing my Master’s thesis and got an email notice that my mom had followed me on Twitter. She did it because she wanted to know what I was up to, but knew I was too busy to talk and didn’t want to distract me from the deadline.
Moms like small talk from their kids, but Gen-Y hates the phone and prefers non-verbal channels like texting or AIM for idle catch-up chatter. My family and I have worked out new ways to stay in touch, and social network sites have been a bit part of that.