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102-Year-Old Facebooker Has More Friends Than You

by Tim Stevens on August 15, 2008 at 03:16 PM

102 Year Old Facebooker Has More Friends Than YouIf watching the constant flood of younger and younger kids to Facebook is making you feel old, then check out our cure: Add Ivy Bean to your friends list. At 102, Mrs. Bean is the oldest person with an active Facebook account, beating the previous oldest person by five full years.

Bean was born back in 1905 in Bradford, England, and made it through both World Wars, the invention of the computer, and the ever-accelerating spread of the Internet. She's a member of a Facebook group that keeps track of the oldest living Facebooker, currently sitting at 300 members, has her own fan club (45 members) and also has 27 friends on her profile. We're guessing that number will be going up quite a bit after this story gets some play.

If you're still feeling old, try subscribing to the blog of 95-year-old grandmother Amelia Lopez, and read the archives of Olive Riley, who last month passed at the age of 108. If you're older than them, perhaps we should be writing about you! [Source: The Daily Mail]



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