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“Oh, okay. So what do I do now?” asks 76-year-old Robert Kelic.
His 12-year-old grandson excitedly runs him through the ropes of his newest social media account.
“You press this button and take either a photo or a video” says Jordon.
“Then you decide who to send it to”
Pop, who doesn’t have any friends his own age who own a mobile phone, nods and goes along with it. Jordon continues.
“You can either send it to me, or like… Mum do you have a Snapchat account?”
Jordon’s mum, 46, doesn’t have a Snapchat account. But Jordon insists that this most recent app installation will be worth pop’s time.
“You can either choose putting it in your story or sending it to friends. Because you don’t have any friends on Snapchat, I’ll just put it in your story”
Pop, who is trying to go along with his grandson’s eager efforts to connect with him further via the social media, can’t help but ask a few questions.
“So, no one will see it?”
Jordon’s sighs.
“No I will add you”
Pop, unsure of how the ‘adding’ process works, keeps enquiring.
“Ok, then add me”
Jordon sighs.
“No, I need to do it from my phone”
Pop hates to point out the obvious, but he has managed to learn how to use skype and facetime, and is wondering why his grandson doesn’t just call him on that.
“No SnapChat is better, because it deletes the video and photo the moment they see it”
“Why would I want that?” asks Pop.
“So they can’t screenshot” says Jordon.
The family patriarch eventually gives up on trying to understand the youth.
“Oh I see!”
“That’s great”
