My Mum The Mod
Life, Musings January 3rd, 2008My mother is a forum moderator. Lollerskates.
Two months ago my mother was completely computer illiterate. She didn’t even know how to turn the computer on and off. One day she received a phone call from a high school classmate of hers that she hadn’t heard from in well over 30 years. Apparently said classmate was trying to find people of their graduating year for some sort of reunion. A few phone calls later my mother was informed that there was an online guestbook set up where classmates of hers had been corresponding with each other.
My mother resolved to learn how to get on board the whole thing. I helped her create an email account, taught her the very basics of MS Word and she learnt by herself (quite quickly I might add) how to type pinyin. Before long, she typed up her first entry on the guestbook.
One day she came into my room excitedly, telling me that there’s been over 300 view counts on her entry and that many people told her that she should write more and they loved her writing. My mother had always secretly aspired to be a writer and so she was absolutely over the moon with the responses. I’m not actually sure what she wrote but it sure sounded like it was almost like group blogging. MY MOTHER WAS BLOGGING.
Class sizes back then involved upwards of 50 people per class and about 10+ classes per year so any reunion (online or otherwise) is pretty big. I guess the site coordinator saw how unwieldy the guestbook format was with so many people involved and s/he replaced it with a forum instead. And appointed my mother as a moderator of the “International” section of the board for classmates that now have left China and live aboard. It was so freaking adorable how bashfully exhilarated but happy my mum was to be given this e-responsibility.
It’s a pretty lively forum too. Peeking over her shoulder I see there’s always at least one or two people viewing the board at any one time. My mum excitedly shows me posts often, where she and other posters would post little messages to each other followed by what would be to us, rather tacky animated gifs (you know the ones of sparkly Korean cartoons or dancing babies) though my mum and her classmates think they are absolutely brilliant. Mum is also really proud of the fact that people tend to always reply to her messages more so than other people. xD It’s all so cute and endearing. One of the happiest times in my life is to see my mum happy. :3
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That’s absolutely adorable, glad to hear it!
I always find it odd to see my mum updating her Facebook =X I have both my parents added on my Fb, it’s bizarre.
Awww! It’s amazing that the Internet lets people of all ages interact with people they used to know and get to know new people… New meaning to “Small world”.
In the interest of full disclosure, I should add that Belinda’s mom is also TOTALLY SMOKING HOT. Like, the sexiest, tiny middle-aged asian lady I’ve ever seen.
That is all.
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You make me think of the various stories I read on Literotica featuring young dude salivating over girlfriend’s mum. It’s all very Mrs. Robinson. :P
Belinda discourages some of my interests. T_T
ROFL. I’m sure Belinda’s mum absolutely adores you. :P That really is amazing though! My mum barely even knows how to turn the computer on, let alone what to do with it once it’s all raring to go.
That is awesome. I wish my mum was computer literate, then we’d have at least one thing in common.
Tell your mum not to let the e-fame go to her head otherwise she’ll end up like me! :o ;)
Awww, that is SUCH a cute story!! My mom knows how to use the Internet, but she avoids it like the plague! She’s afraid of perverts and such. :P
Woah your mom is cool! :D My mom’s computer illiterate, and she doesn’t really bother to learn because she knows that I’m always there to help her.
Lol your mum is so cool. She sounds really fun! My mum is completely computer illiterate (I mean she doesn’t even know how to turn on the computer). She thought I was doing homework when I was playing Pokemon and thought I was gaming when the screensaver was on.
Heh, that’s a really cute story.
I always find it weird when people talk about their parents being such painful Luddites, but maybe my parents are just a fluke or something. I mean, I wouldn’t call them computer whizzes or anything (and indeed, none have them have managed to become a forum moderator. neither have I for that matter >_>), but they can do emails and run a web browser with surehanded confidence.
I love it when the older generation are determined to still remain in the present… not a lot can continue forward and are willing to learn all over again. Your mother must be excited and proud that she’s found a new hobby. I’m glad for your mom! ^_^
Ahaha, wow! That’s awesome, not only is she talking to former classmates and friends, she’s also learning other stuff as well :P My mother knows how to use the computer well enough, she even got a Trojan on my laptop a couple of days ago, haha.
That’s cute! Most moms I know are completely computer illiterate, but maybe there will come a day when all of them will have blogs and mod forums XD My mom started with Myspace, then facebook, then forums, I’m pretty sure that soon she’ll be blogging too :P
if your mom blogged… i totally adore her… tell your mom i said “you rock” lmao… my parents, both know just little thing over internet!!! my dad even need to wake me up midnight just to ask “how to send an email?”
i really want to know your mom’s blog site url!!! lmao
That’s awesome that your mother knows how to do that. I mean, sometimes I wished my mum could use to computer and all, but at most times I’m like . . . if she knows how to use it, then she’ll either break it or spend time on it a lot to the point that I can’t use the computer!!! Oh well. She’s happy with her television.
Awww, that’s so cute.
My mum just doesn’t get the Internet. She doesn’t understand what a blog or a message board is, no matter how many times I tried to explain it to her.