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Call Mom Maybe
- munyukim 13y agoIt would be ridiculous to just tweet and believe its enough.Our mothers are very important pillar of strength and on such a day even calling might not be enough, you need to something special and nice for mother.
- zapdrive 13y agolike what?
- ndr 13y agoI guess the suggestion was to praise her on HN? :D
- tekacs 13y ago'need'? If so, why not do this on your birthday, which seems like it would be a wildly more appropriate date? :P
- OGinparadise 13y agoMothers Day -- you as a son/daughter show the appreciation for the sacrifices she made raising you. A birthday is totally different. And of course you don't "need" to, the sun will still rise the day after if you don't, but certain things matter.
- Radim 13y agoYou "need" to, in the same way an engagement ring "needs" to be diamond and cost 3x your salary. Certain things matter! What matters even more is showing your appreciation outside of one designated day a year, or a shiny piece of carbon.
- OGinparadise 13y agoYou "need" to, in the same way an engagement ring "needs" to be diamond and cost 3x your salary. Certain things matter! WTF? We're talking about a PHONE CALL vs a tweet for your mom not spending $20K. If you can't spare five minutes, don't bother with a tweet (unless you're in Iraq, the South Pole etc.)
- tuananh 13y agoI'm totally agree with you on this. Birthday seems like a more appropriate day.
- nijk 13y agoSimple way to figure out which is more appropriate: ask your mother what she wants.
- mattacular 13y agoThis strikes me as a post about a thing that is not a thing. But, I guess that's Twitter for you.
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- petercooper 13y agoUnless you're in the UK, then you should have done it 6 weeks ago, you lazy so and sos! ;-)
- negrit 13y agoSo, I called my mom today and said: "Happy mothers day mom". And she was supprised she missed it for her mom. Than I realized that mothers day is in two weeks in France.
- antoko 13y agoThanks for that, Ed almost shamed me into calling, I'll still call since its been a while but at least I won't open with "Happy Mother's Day!"... to be followed by a confused silence.
- robotmay 13y agoI'll admit to panicking slightly before I read down this far.
- brunorsini 13y agoI just love this and wish more marketers would understand the power of low bs messaging
- edw519 13y agoCall your Mom This is the best advice you will ever get here or anywhere else. So do it. I called my mother almost every day for 30 years. It I missed, she was sure to remind me. No matter what else happened, it was pretty much the highlight of both of our days. We talk about a million different metrics to measure just about everything here, but I just can't get pass HowYouTreatYouMother as the #1 binary metric of you. More about my mother here: http://edweissman.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/betty-weissman-1930-2011/ http://edweissman.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/betty-weissman-19... Please call your mother for those of us who no longer can.
- Achshar 13y agoI told my mom personally because... umm well, because I live with my parents.
- sneak 13y ago> This is the best advice you will ever get here or anywhere else. That's rather presumptuous. > Please call your mother for those of us who no longer can. What do my family contact habits have to do with people whom I've never met?
- jkonowitch 13y agoAre you kidding me?! Are you completely devoid of empathy? He's not trying to command that anyone do anything, so drop the indignation. This is what we call a human response to grief; his mother is no longer here, and knowing what a wonderful and life-giving relationship that was, he is imploring the rest of us not to take our relationships with our mothers for granted.
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- ams6110 13y agoI've lost both my parents. Everyone does. It's nothing that deserves any special sympathy or empathy. It's part of life. I miss my parents, but beyond the initial short-term sadness after their deaths I don't grieve their loss, since it is inevitable. Far worse it would be to lose a child.
- BasilAwad 13y agomaybe visit mom?
- hawkharris 13y agoThat was really funny and refreshing. Humor is the most underused tool in public relations, in my opinion.
- val_c 13y agoNice one Twitter... I almost fell for it and thought they'd done a super cheesy vid... PHEW!
- galvanist 13y agoThis is some talented ad work. It was clearly cheap to make. They're going for viral. We're discussing it. The message isn't slimy. It's funny. It's more interesting than something like #tweetyermom. I say mission accomplished. Also I still don't care much for twitter.
- ComputerGuru 13y agoI call my mom very often, but nevertheless, she gets two Mothers' Days every year by virtue of not currently living in the US but having kids who do: I call her on her Mother's Day and mine. It seems the whole world but us celebrates Mother's day in March. Fun fact: while most of the world celebrates Mother's Day, very few countries have Father's Day. At least we can do something right :)
- mcintyre1994 13y agoReally? In the UK we have both (with the more common March mother's day), and it seems really sad that schools are basically not mentioning father's day any more because of the obvious issues. I didn't know most of the world didn't celebrate it at all though, that's really sad.
- mcintyre1994 13y agoReally nice video, great advertising idea. With the focus on video at the beginning though, I couldn't help but think how if you said Youtube instead of Twitter it'd pretty much all fit, interesting to see them become more and more about media.