Jimmy Fallon #MOMTEXTS

Every week on Jimmy Fallon's show he has a segment where he posts on Twitter a hash tag and then waits to receive people's responses. People submit their responses, and then Jimmy Fallon chooses the best or funniest responses. In this episode, the hash tag that he sent out was #MomTexts which led to some pretty fantastic responses about mothers and their lack of knowledge of technology.

One of the first responses was from a mom that did not know what a "less than three" meant when it formed a heart. The second mother texted the child saying that "Aunt Mary died. Lol." thinking that "LOL" stood for "lots of love" rather than "laugh out loud". Another of the responses stated that the child had "received 12 consecutive completely empty text bubbles from [her]  mom the other day. Apparently she was trying to unlock her phone." One of my personal favorites was the one that said, "my mom couldn't figure out punctuation so she would type it out: "how are you question mark," which is a perfect example of people of older generations trying to figure out technology that they are unused to.

This entire video made me think of our class and how even if someone isn't used to a form of technology, it is almost crucial to join so that they can stay connected with the rest of the world, and younger generations. It makes me think of all of the parents and grandparents joining Facebook and Twitter to stay connected.

My grandmother bought a laptop and a cellphone just because she wanted the new technologies, and she then got a Facebook, and she calls me and my siblings regularly trying to figure out how to comment on pictures, or to make a status. It is the most frustrating thing in the world trying to explain technology to her but I think her generation is trying to learn how to be youthful, and experience technology the way we are.

I think that this video was overall really entertaining, and really representative of the direction technology is heading with the older and younger generations.