#HappyBirthdayAnna is popping up around social media Wednesday celebrating the 114th birthday of Anna Stoehr, who was forced to lie about her age in order to join Facebook.
Stoehr was born in 1900, but Facebook doesn't let new users choose a birth year earlier than 1905, according to CNET. Stoehr ended up saying she was only 99 to sign up for the site.
Stoehr is reportedly Minnesota's oldest resident, and has had a lifelong interest in learning new things, CNN reported. She was born before her family had a telephone, car or even electricity.
A Verizon salesman named Joseph Ramireza was taken with Stoehr's passion for learning, and made a trip her Plain View, Minn. nursing home to teach her how to email, search for things on Google and sign up for Facebook.
Ramirez helped Stoehr write a letter on a typewriter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg when they discovered that she couldn't select her true age.
'I'm still here,' she wrote.
Stoehr celebrated her 114th birthday with a party Sunday.
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