Whatsapping Mama
I watched with
great amusement as my 58-years-old mom made the transition from the normal sms
to 'Whatsapp'. I was there at the initiation cum tutorial session and it was
hilarious. She'd press enter even before she finished typing a sentence, so in
the beginning her text would be all 'tergantung-gantung', sometimes making no
sense at all. Then in the Family Whatsapp's group, she got confused who was 'talking' because it seems like
everybody is 'talking' all at the same time and she can't keep up with who was
sending the messages! haha...
Sometimes she even lost-track on what was being talked about or totally lose the flow of the conversation. "Soalan lain, jawapan lain" was a common occurrence hahaha. "Susahnya, macam mana ni??" was her initial comments and I was snapping away her pictures in her 'struggles' to get used to the whole thing and sending the snaps in the whatsapp group just for laughs (because eventually she would received them too)
Well, that was 3 weeks ago, now she can even used the app's icons/emoticons and she's getting pretty good at it hehe... Every evening now, she'd rushed home from work, get within the house's Wifi zone and eagerly waited for all the messages to come in, and when there's none she'd be the one sending out messages - wondering why is everybody keeping quiet and usually asking for more pantun-pantin from all of us
Sometimes she even lost-track on what was being talked about or totally lose the flow of the conversation. "Soalan lain, jawapan lain" was a common occurrence hahaha. "Susahnya, macam mana ni??" was her initial comments and I was snapping away her pictures in her 'struggles' to get used to the whole thing and sending the snaps in the whatsapp group just for laughs (because eventually she would received them too)
Well, that was 3 weeks ago, now she can even used the app's icons/emoticons and she's getting pretty good at it hehe... Every evening now, she'd rushed home from work, get within the house's Wifi zone and eagerly waited for all the messages to come in, and when there's none she'd be the one sending out messages - wondering why is everybody keeping quiet and usually asking for more pantun-pantin from all of us
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