MILLENNIAL WANNABES
How many of us can confidently say that they became friends with their parents on social media at the very first request most especially on Facebook and how many can say they willingly added them to their WhatsApp groups? Some parents had to resort to self-help using pseudo names on social media and then going ahead to request for their children’s friendship all in a bid to “monitor” them and see what they were up to. Could this be the real reason or they actually wanted to feel among?
The latest fad now is their addiction to WhatsApp and the rate at which they forward messages to you is alarming and annoying to say the least. A friend once told me that his landlord has become so fond of forwarding porn videos to him that he had to confront him and ask what impression his wife would have of him if she found out he is the one who sends the porn videos. Make baba landlord no go do wetin go make tenant stop paying house rent o. Most of them just stumble on messages and never bother to look through most times before forwarding these messages. As annoying as their actions can be, who born you to show your anger?
Family WhatsApp groups with these old papas and mamas are the funniest and sometimes annoying. Nothing like digital age shidren there o cos they treat your misdemeanor instantly that you are almost forced to retreat into your shell. Children have gone ahead to form other family groups without inviting their parents so they can chat freely amongst themselves leaving them to their wahala. A scenario I know about had me laughing my head off when papa found out that his children had formed another group, he simply bided his time till when one of the children came visiting and stood up without her phone to use the rest room. They say opportunity comes but once, and so papa just invited himself to the group jejely and also made himself administrator sharp sharp. Who get liver make he remove papa from the group again? Papa invited mama, uncles, aunties and ancestors sef. This one na critical case of “Double Wahala” o. Another I know of is one though their dad is no more but their mom being the usual mother hen ended up always chatting with herself because there was never a reply; these shidren of nowadays ain’t loyal anymore o. The most annoying ones are the judgement room type and the people I really pity in those ones are the children in-laws cos they dare not leave so they are just stuck there.
The most interesting ones are the ones the parents are good at using emotional and intellectual blackmail on their children to get whatever they want and life continues. But make these parents dey take am easy o cos that’s how my friend’s mum added him and his siblings to her fellowship and prayer group and as they didn’t have a choice, they decided on what to do so they can be removed from the group, they resorted to sending slay queens pictures into the group that the administrator of the group got tired and removed them from the group when she felt they had “disgraced” their mother enough.
WHAT IS THE WAY FORWARD OR DO WE JUST LIVE WITH IT?
