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July 3, 2010
“Respect your elders” was a common phrase in my rural community when growing up; for a young person, being perceived as being disrespectful to the elderly would have gotten you an immediate telling off from the person who noticed, and a BIG telling off from the parentals.
These days, being old can be the coolest thing ever, and attract followers such as Chris Evans, an ex-PM’s wife and Peter Andre. For those of you in the know, I am talking about Ivy Bean, Twitter’s oldest (unconfirmed) Tweeter.
In the year Ivy was online (she has recently passe away), she gained 56,653 followers, and posted 1,000 tweets. Although the posts mainly consisted of her day to day activities, she seems to have engaged a wide variety of people, and touched a lot of people.
This is one of those stories where technology really can bring people together.
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