Tita Files
FILE #015

Subject designation

The Online Tita

Field profile

Facebook profile picture is a flower or a sunset. Shares unverified health articles daily. Reacts "care" to literally everything, including bad news.

Known behaviors

  • Shares a miracle-cure article with the caption 'SHARE NA!'
  • Uses the care react on birthdays, deaths, and everything between.
  • Comments 'AMEN' on posts that were not about that at all.

Natural habitat

The Facebook feed, at all hours, where she shares, reacts, and comments in a font size visible from space.

Signature phrase, on record

“SHARE THIS BEFORE FACEBOOK DELETES IT.”

Case notes

She discovered social media later in life and approached it with the earnest energy of someone who cannot believe you can talk to everyone at once. The health articles are dubious and the reacts are chaotic, but the impulse underneath is connection. She just wants to be in the conversation. Gently fact-check the scarier posts in private, never in the comments, because to her a public correction is an ambush in front of the whole barangay.

Engagement protocol, for field use

  1. 01Fact-check in Messenger, never in the comments. A public correction is an ambush.
  2. 02React to her posts occasionally. To her, that is proof of life.
  3. 03The care react on your bad news is not mockery. It is the biggest heart she could find.

Field verification

Cross-referenced files

Subjects known to associate with, oppose, or eventually become The Online Tita.

FILE #025Tita Every Feeling is a Facebook PostDocuments every emotional high and low as a status update, usually in all caps, usually vague enough that the whole family has to ask "kamusta ka, tita?" in the comments.FILE #004The Prayer WarriorSends Bible verses via Facebook Messenger at 6am. Genuinely believes it's helping. It kind of is.FILE #001The MaritesKnows everyone's business before they do. The original Filipino gossip network, one text message at a time.
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