Help! My 77 Year Old Mother Follows Me On Instagram

Not sure if I should follow or block her

The author and his mum via my smartphone

Fourteen years ago, when Facebook was still in its infancy and the alt-right hadn’t quite worked out how best to capitalize on this novel digital contraption, my mum and I had a discussion about her getting on Facebook.

She said: “ heaven forbid that I should join you on that rubbish!”