Yo, we got a wild story to share about my buddy Philip and his unexpected ghostly adventures on Facebook! So, after losing his mom, he hops on her computer and – surprise, surprise – starts liking her old posts like she’s the social media version of Casper the Friendly Ghost! Imagine scrolling your feed, all sad and grieving, and BAM! There’s Margaret giving a thumbs up to your casserole pic from six months ago. Like, is she back from the afterlife or just really into the Wi-Fi up there? 😂 We dive into this hilarious, yet kinda weird way people cope with loss, and trust me, it’s a rollercoaster of laughs, puns, and a sprinkle of “what the heck?” moments! Grab your snacks and get ready to giggle, 'cause this one’s a doozy!
Takeaways:
Our buddy Philip became a ghost intern for Facebook, liking posts from his late mom's account—talk about a digital afterlife!
Imagine scrolling through your feed, and suddenly, your deceased friend's account pops up liking your casserole post—Margaret's back with a Wi-Fi upgrade!
Grief hits everyone differently, but turning your mom into a social media poltergeist is a unique coping strategy, I guess.
Philip thought his mom would love seeing her friends' posts, but they probably think she's haunting them with likes!
You'd think afterlife vibes would be more peaceful, but nah, it's just Philip in sweatpants on a like spree!
Next time you see a random like from a friend who's passed, it might just be their ghost hitting the 'like' button—spooky or sweet?
Transcripts
Speaker A:
It's Haystack and my friend Philip.
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And, yes, I'm changing his name to protect the guilty here.
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My friend Philip tells me this story months after his mother passes away, which is obviously a heavy situation.
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Already he is visiting his father, and he logs into his mother's computer, and, yeah, she still, of course, logged into her Facebook.
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I mean, he's starting to tell me about getting on her computer, and I think, oh, he's gonna go through photos and reminisce, right?
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No, he becomes a ghost intern for Facebook and starts liking posts from her account months after she passes away.
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Can you imagine?
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And, you know, she's very elderly.
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Was.
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I should say.
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And so her friends are mostly very elderly.
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Can you imagine being one of her friends and scrolling and minding your own business, Maybe grieving and healing, and suddenly, Margaret liked your post.
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What?
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Margaret?
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Margaret's been gone since March, and it's October, and now she's like, nice casserole, Linda.
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People are refreshing their feeds.
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Like, either there's an afterlife, or Margaret has better WI fi than I do in heaven or wherever she ended up.
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And Philip is just sitting there, clicking away.
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Oh, she would have loved that click.
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Yeah, mom was big into minion memes.
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Clickety click.
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Her friends have to be losing it.
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I knew she was watching over us.
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No, she's not watching over you.
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Philip is in sweatpants eating cereal, going, ah, she would have wanted you to see this.
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And, you know, you know, there's one overly spiritual friend that's commenting or.
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Or thing.
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This is a sign she is still with us.
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Yeah, she's with you.
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And she's really into your vacation pics.
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I told him, man, grief is weird.
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I get it.
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People cope in different ways.
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But maybe don't turn your mother into a social media poltergeist, because now one day he's gonna stop, and then all her friends are gonna be like, she has finally found peace.
