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On Facebook, what does "Age I Was Given" mean? (Original Post)
battleknight24
Feb 2013
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BainsBane
(53,093 posts)1. What is the context?
Journeyman
(15,042 posts)2. Given for marriage? "Who here gives this woman. . ."
Squinch
(51,059 posts)5. That's a reasonable guess for what it means, but eek! That would be creepy. Handmaids Tale anyone?
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)6. indeed
Not Me
(3,398 posts)3. It's part of a viral thread
You 'give' someone an age...then they post some things about themselves when they were that age. ie. What car they drove, where they lived, what they were doing, etc.
Ususally add to that what they are up to today in the same categories.
It's a bit of TMI I think.
MANative
(4,112 posts)7. Yup - someone tags you with a random age and you begin your answers to...
a series of questions with what was true for you at that time. Most of them are pretty harmless.
eShirl
(18,505 posts)4. I can't call it.