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Just make our dads just get on Facebook already.

Created by G.S. on November 09, 2015

Millennials are struggling. We entered the workforce during historically low employment, and continue to suffer from the repercussions of a recession that disproportionately affected our generation.

Even as we struggle to gain firm economic footing, however, we are faced with an escalating threat to our productivity:

Our dads just discovered Imgur.

Every day, we wake up and fire up gmail, eager to contribute to society. But everyday, we find ourselves combing through an influx of emails from our dads, all with the subject "LOL" and all devoid of body text save a single imgur link to a captioned photo of grumpy cat.

We never thought we'd say this, but the economy needs our dads to join our bosses, our aunts, and our 5th grade English teachers. We need you to put our dads on Facebook.

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