Two Sides To Every Story

Jul 29., 2009 View Comments

My mom uses Twitter. “Uses” in the sense that she lurks without posting anything. Today she received a crash course in one of the pitfalls of Twitter: to get the full idea of what’s being said, many times you have to follow both parties involved in a Twitter conversation.

Earlier today @BusyDadBlog asked:

Curious – for those of you with kids around 7 yrs of age. How much freedom do you give your kids re: allowance spending?

What concerned my mom was that she only saw my response and wasn’t aware of the context:

@BusyDadBlog Our 8 yr old has pretty much full freedom, with the understanding that we retain Veto rights when it will be a true waste of $

As every good Grandma does, she paniced and asked me what I meant by that Twitter posting. I was able to explain and put her sudden fear of having raised a son who grew up to be a tremendously lousy father at ease.

Thank you, Web 2.0, for scaring the bejeezus out of my mother, even when I no longer live under her roof.