Don’t throw your hands in the air and ignore this article as another damn piece of Internet nonsense.

This is serious, man. You don’t have to be down wid de kidz to appreciate what I’m going to tell you.

Quite apart from it being Edith McGuigan and Tom Tiler’s birthday (neither of whom I would recognise if they were sat in our lounge) October 8 is Indigenous People’s Day.

Yeah, that’s right, you heard correctly Indigenous People’s Day and I would have never known if it wasn’t for Facebook and my iPhone.

The whole celebration would have gone on around me and I would have missed it.

Well thanks to Apple and Mark Zuckerberg I am now prepared for Indigenous People’s Day and being a bit indigenous myself I shall be out in the centre of town revelling with all those other Indigenous People as we celebrate our indigenousness.

Maybe all my Facebook ‘friends’ will be there?

Not that I’ll be any the wiser having never actually met them (or heard of them come to that). Nevertheless it should be a fantastic event. Apparently there’s going to be lots of 1970’s music. First I was afraid...I was petrified but hey-ho a party is a party.

Isn’t the Internet great?

By Guardian columnist Vic Barlow