You might want to rethink pressing decline to your Grandma’s friend request on Facebook.
You see, apart from loving you and never forgetting your birthday, older relatives deserve a web presence in your life if for no other reason than to provide you with moments of adorably unintentional hilarity.
One of the latest trends to sweep through the not-so tech-savvy seniors group is their accidental Facebook fandom of seminal hip-hop artist, Grandmaster Flash.
The confusion is all due to a newish feature on the social platform which suggests the tags of other users when creating a status and incidentally when typing “grandma” in the status bar the “Grandmaster Flash” auto-tag pops up.
Unbeknownst to them, many older mamas and papas have misunderstood the new tagging tool and have been giving the hip hop artist some serious love in their statuses.
The phenomenon has gone viral and one web wizard has gloriously compiled the Facebook fails on a Tumblr account called Love, Grampa and Grandmaster Flash, which shows off some super adorable auto corrects.
Relishing in his new found fans, 56-year-old Grandmaster has weighed in on the trend via Facebook post: “It’s true I get a lot of posts from Grandmas. Hilarious now I know why – Respect Grandma and Grandpa. PS. This is Hip Hop!”
See some of the best Facebook fails here.
One of the latest trends to sweep through not so tech-savvy seniors is their accidental Facebook fandom of seminal hip-hop artist, Grandmaster Flash.
If you’re lucky enough to have Grandma on Facebook, you can expect to experience moments of adorable and unintentional hilarity just like this one.
One woman tags “Grandmaster Flash” in a status with her grandchildren.
There you go Jo – a happy birthday from one of the biggest music stars of all time.
Surely the Grandmaster would be dominating the dance floor?
Ginger still doesn’t know what happened…
This cheeky grandchild had fun with this Facebook fail.
Grandmaster Flash himself gave a shout out to his older Facebook fans.
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