Facebook v.s. My mom

Recently my mom an I were discussing Facebook. The topic started with dilemma of when one should post a change in relationship status after a break-up and also the reaction and comments that might follow on that "status".
My mom just looked like at me like I was speaking a different language and shook her head, saying, "That concept is just too weird for me, I don't think I get it."

I have had a Facebook for about 5 or so years, my mother just got one a year ago, maybe? The concept of changing a relationship status, or something of that nature, and people commenting on it seemed very alien to her. I'm trying to wrap my mind around it because there was a time when I did not have a Facebook, so it's not that I would have found it strange, because I wouldn't have been presented with the situation in the first place.
Yet I suppose it is because Facebook, for the twenty-something, is a crucial part of the social life, whereas my mother set up her Facebook and left it, periodically checking it, but not really doing much. It is just something to look at, not something to communicate with all of her friends with.

Social networks are strange, overall. Speaking with a friend recently about the same issue we both confessed to hating Facebook, while at the same time being ridiculously attached to it. It's just so hard to stay feel connected without it, these days.

My mothers last word on the subject was "Well, I guess when I was your age my parents thought I did strange things that they didn't understand, like premarital sex..."

This is why my mom is awesome.