113-year-old woman lies about her age to join Facebook

NEW YORK: Anna Stoehr, one of the oldest living people in the world at age 113, has finally got herself a Facebook account. What she had to do was to lie about her actual age as the earliest birth year listed on Facebook to create a new profile is 1905.

Stoehr, the oldest resident of Minnesota, decided to fudge her age by 15 years and submitted her age as 99 to get through, KARE-TV reported.

Born October 15, 1900, she is set to celebrate her 114th birthday next week.

For her social media exposure, she is thankful to a Verizon sales representative who befriended her to teach her how to e-mail and Google.


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Referred to as the 'oldest teenager' in the online community, Stoehr is now using iPad to get connected with family members and friends on the social networking site.