HAMILTON, NY—In a recent press conference, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg apologized for creating the tool that has consistently allowed your friend’s parents to post their thoughts and opinions on the internet for you to see.
While Zuckerberg initially created Facebook to connect people and revolutionize communication, he says he had no idea how annoying and stupid your friend’s parents could be. In his words, “I had absolutely no clue how often your friend’s mom would post a detailed description of her plans for the day or how many times your friend’s dad would post a viral video from 3 years ago or an article about a conspiracy theory related to President Obama with the caption ‘This explains everything.’”
Zuckerberg also spent some time discussing how he was completely unaware of your friend’s grandma who comments on various posts and ends her comments with “xoxo grammy,” but admitted that “everyone thinks it’s cute,” and that “it doesn’t hurt anybody.” Zuckerberg even went as far to say that he had never expected grandparents to be more tolerable than parents on Facebook, but it has become clear that parents are indeed the most annoying people on the site.
Facebook was founded over eleven years ago, and while this apology is long overdue, it has been much appreciated by the millions of young Facebook users around the world who are friends with their friends’ parents. Whether or not Zuckerberg will plan to implement an option to specifically hide all posts from all of your friends’ parents on the website and app is still unknown.