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Why Is Facebook Forcing a 104-Year-Old to Lie About Her Age?

Feb. 21, 2013 9:17am

GROSSE POINTE SHORES, Mich. (TheBlaze/AP) — Although many women would be just fine with lying about their age, a 104-year-old Michigan woman who is proud of her many years isn’t being allowed to share her true age on Facebook.

The social media site has a flaw that won’t let Marguerite Joseph list her age beyond that of 99 years.

Marguerite Joseph Can Not List 104 Years Old as Her Age on Facebook Due to Glitch

Marguerite Joseph’s Facebook profile. (Image: Facebook screenshot)

Gail Marlow, Joseph’s granddaughter, said when she tries inputting her grandmother’s birth year as 1908, Facebook changes it to 1928. So for the past two years, the Grosse Pointe Shores centenarian has remained 99 – online, anyway.

Joseph is legally blind and can’t hear well, but Marlow reads and responds to all her Facebook messages.

Marguerite Joseph Can Not List 104 Years Old as Her Age on Facebook Due to Glitch

Joseph using a shake weight. (Photo: Facebook)

Marlow tells WDIV-TV she’d “love to see” Joseph’s real age posted and chalks it up to “a glitch in the system.” As WDIV also pointed out, Joseph has seen nearly all the technological changes there have been in communication over the last 100 years and is pleased to be able to keep in touch with friends and family using social media.

Marguerite Joseph Can Not List 104 Years Old as Her Age on Facebook Due to Glitch

Joseph, Marlow and a local news crew. (Photo: Facebook)

Marlow said that Joseph will turn 105 in April — something she hopes to be able to record accurately on her grandmother’s profile page.

Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes told The Associated Press on Wednesday that it’s working to fix a problem limiting used of pre-1910 birthdates.

Last year, a woman claimed to be the oldest person on Facebook at 101 years old. Given that Joseph and perhaps others born before 1910 cannot accurately list their years, this woman appears to not be the oldest after all.

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Comments (28)

  • gary kilmer
    Posted on February 22, 2013 at 7:02am

    I hope she continues for many years

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  • Horsewithnoname
    Posted on February 21, 2013 at 6:01pm

    Is no one going to explain that huge silver crest plaque behind her? It hangs on the wall. Maybe a family crest? Absolute PLAQUE-ZILLA

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    Horsewithnoname  
    • DZ-015
      Posted on February 22, 2013 at 12:11pm

      It looks like the British coat of arms with a lion and a unicorn on either side of a shield.

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  • Southernsoul
    Posted on February 21, 2013 at 5:54pm

    Facebook? Who is so deprived of attention as to be on Facebook. Oh, yeah, I know everyone has some legitimate reason for being there. “Oh, I’m only on there so my dogs in Cambodia can keep track of my laundry day”. Anyone on any of those sites is pathetic. Try paying attention to the real world.

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  • JerryNic
    Posted on February 21, 2013 at 9:58am

    What is the deal! In five minutes she could add the tag “I AM 104 YEARS OLD” to the banner photo containing Hershey bars. Then no one would have needed to read this.

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    JerryNic  
  • FeliciaJewel
    Posted on February 21, 2013 at 9:49am

    I like the story. Imagine all that she has seen. To be alive for over a hundred years is amazing, the stories she can tell. The fact that she was born in a time that people did not have this technology and she uses the current technology is so cool. Look back in history to 1908… wow, we have come along way. I hope she makes it to the singularity. She has much to tell, why not on Facebook? I hope Facebook can fix the glitch and allow her to display her real age. Bless her heart!

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  • shorelineliz
    Posted on February 21, 2013 at 9:44am

    Facebook? what’s Facebook?

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    shorelineliz  
  • FiscalBill
    Posted on February 21, 2013 at 9:42am

    She was probably trampled to death by the one on the right trying to get to that Hershey’s basket….

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    FiscalBill  
    • BarackInsaneNobama
      Posted on February 21, 2013 at 1:32pm

      One of her many stories to tell! LOL I hate people who are that obese. Then they collect money from the govt. for being ‘disabled’ not to disabled to walk/wheel to tthe fridge. It’s a discrase. I was at Winco(a nice supermarket on the west coast)the other day with my mother. I am 21 she is 45 and she has a severe case of MS(Multiple Sclerosis) she can hardley getup to get into her wheel chair or walker. So I drive her to the store since she cannot do that either. We were at the front doors and she was using her walker and some fat ass that already took the last handi-cap space, WALKED with no problems but her thighs rubbing together and creating a rash, she “raced” past us to get to the last scooter. Boy was I livid I went off on that fat ****. So we waited for another one tocome, and a elderly lady with one leg got off acceptable. After we got the few things we needed we were behind her in check out. Guess what she ‘paid’with to get hergroceries, YUP you guessed it an EBTRfood card, then she used her EBT CASH cardtopay for her BEER, MONSTER ENERGY DRINK, AND CIGGARETTES. I was almost kicked out of the store after publicly humiliating this women, it might of been different if she had a conhdition to her obesity but you didnt see the crapin her cart. It was self inflicted. On the ride home my mom vouched for why she still TRYS her best to ride her sitdown excersise bike to stay fit. Since she was diagnosed she has only gained 7lb thats 1lb/per/yr. I am disgusted with A

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  • rfred20
    Posted on February 21, 2013 at 9:41am

    You know what I find hysterical about this whole thing?

    My younger teenage brother lied about his age on Facebook because he was too young at the time he signed up to have one. His age says he’s 108 … So my question is why can he have a pre-1910 birth date, but this lady can’t?

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  • Tri-ox
    Posted on February 21, 2013 at 9:35am

    Silly. No one is forcing her to lie about her age.

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    Tri-ox  
    • Larry Holmes
      Posted on February 21, 2013 at 9:20pm

      By changing the information she entered to something which will fit their system, they are changing her age, and not allowing her to report her true age. That sounds like forcing to me!

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      Larry Holmes  
  • gryffn
    Posted on February 21, 2013 at 9:30am

    It’s just a story… gee. And one that does not put my stomach in a knot.

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    gryffn  
  • circleDwagons
    Posted on February 21, 2013 at 9:28am

    This is strange my father claimed july 4, 1904 as is bday. He did not have any problems claiming that day and finds it ammusing to get birthday wishes from people that know better.

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  • huey6367
    Posted on February 21, 2013 at 9:28am

    And a 104 year old woman wants on Facebook why?

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    • woodyee
      Posted on February 21, 2013 at 9:35am

      Because some young 90yr old stud like you might want to date her, Huey! Ha-ha!

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      woodyee  
    • huey6367
      Posted on February 21, 2013 at 9:55am

      You figured me out. You are slick.

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      huey6367  
    • BayuzhiZERO
      Posted on February 21, 2013 at 3:35pm

      Social media, good sir.

      It allows her to keep in touch with people she can’t get out to see due to infirmity based on her disability or her advanced age.

      She’s blessed to have grandchildren who care about her and read it to her, too, as she can’t see.

      I’d love to give this nice lady a hug.

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      BayuzhiZERO  
  • biohazard23
    Posted on February 21, 2013 at 9:27am

    WTH do people still use FB??

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on February 21, 2013 at 9:26am

    Can’t have us old farts on any new technology websites…

    Just point us to the graveyard…. queue the young trolls.

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    The-Monk  
  • redfish52
    Posted on February 21, 2013 at 9:21am

    And this is a story why?

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    redfish52  
    • ManSquito
      Posted on February 21, 2013 at 9:33am

      And you made a comment WHY? What is the point of your comment. At least I learned something from the story. I didn’t learn anything from your comment other than that you are an unhappy person. What is your problem? Why the heck would anyone want to hang out on this website if it is doom and gloom all the time. It is a 104 year old lady it seems pretty amazing to me. You don’t seem to be a happy person. Have a Coke and a smile and…STFU…respectfully.

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      ManSquito  
    • OldVet
      Posted on February 21, 2013 at 9:39am

      You don’t like this story because it is about someone over 30. Right? Go back to your video games kid.

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      OldVet  

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