A 104-year-old Michigan woman with a Facebook account has an unusual problem, she's too old for the popular social networking site to compute her age.
For over two years now, Marguerite Joseph of Grosse Pointe Shores has lied that she's 99-years-old, she told the Detroit's WDIV Local 4, because when she tries to input her age into Facebook the site won't allow it. With the help of her granddaughter, Gail Marlow, the legally blind and partially deaf centenarian who has lived through two world wars and the Great Depression, has been reaching out to the site's founder Mark Zuckerberg to correct the problem.
The two women say that when they put in the correct three digit age on her profile, the site would automatically change it to another. Marguerite was born in 1908 but the women say the site would change the year to 1928.
"Every time I tried to change the settings to the right year, Facebook always came back with an unknown error message and would send us right back to a year she wasn't born in," Marlow told WDIV. "I would love to see her real age on Facebook, I mean in April she's going to be 105. It's special."
Without hesitation, Marlow began messaging Zuckerberg to get to the bottom of what may be the cause behind the recurring error. However, the 28-year-old internet entrepreneur never got back to her.
Facebook did issue a statement to WDIV, saying "We've recently discovered an issue whereby some Facebook users may be unable to enter a birthday before 1910. We are working on a fix for this and we apologize for the inconvenience."
In the meantime, Marlow and her grandmother will just have to wait until the programmers in Silicon Valley fix the glitch.
"This is an opportunity for me to share her with the world and I truly believe being online has helped keep her young," Marlow said.
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