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  • Facebook’s Oldest User Is Now 106

    Facebook’s Oldest User Is Now 106

    The honorable crown of “Oldest Person on Facebook” has rested on several different heads over the past couple of years. But for the last year or so, the title has belonged to 105-year-old Edythe Kirchmaier.

    Well, make that 106-year-old Edythe Kirchmaier.

    Wednesday, the oldest Facebook user celebrated a birthday. The Santa Barbara, California resident first joined Facebook in late 2012.

    Kirchmaier joined the social giant, in part, to help raise awareness for her favorite charity – Direct Relief. She has been volunteering at the organization for four decades.

    Post by Edythe Kirchmaier.

    You may remember that Kirchmaier made the news when she first tried to join – Facebook wouldn’t let her enter in her birth year of 1908. With the urging of Direct Relief, Facebook engineers quickly fixed the problem.

    Kirchmaier has amassed quite the following on Facebook. As of today, she’s up to 47,570 followers. We wish her many more years as the title-holder.

    Images via Edythe Kirchmaier, Facebook

  • Oldest Facebook User Ousted By New Mexico Woman

    The world’s oldest Facebook user–as proclaimed and celebrated by Mark Zuckerberg himself this summer–has been ousted by a New Mexico woman who claims to be 105 years old.

    Florence Detlor, who turned 101 this year, was given special attention by Zuckerberg and the rest of the Facebook staff as being the oldest user of the social media site and had over 4,000 friends; her page still proudly proclaims her to be the oldest user.

    However, a woman by the name of Maria Colunia Seguar-Metzgar says she just turned 105 and is an avid user of the site, but the problem is that Facebook won’t allow her to put in her accurate age; it only goes up to 101. Seguar-Metzgar, who was born in 1907 and married in the ’20s, says she mostly uses Facebook to communicate with family and to let everyone know she’s “still alive and kicking“.

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