It always confuses me how it is possible that every day there is going to be some kind of huge post on Facebook where it's something like "how much is that? Don't use a calculator: 2+4x9-3" and it's gonna have like 995k comments from boomers where 90% of it is wrong answers. Like how many times are you going to play the same shit over and over again? What even is the joy of commenting on it, they're just posting a number there to disappear into the void of 40 new comments/sec.
Also I used to have set my FB age older than I am and I ended up getting a bunch of that boomer action recommended. For instance there recently was some kind of huge crypto scam marketing campaign where there were a bunch of sponsored ads for extremely obviously fake articles in websites that posed as major outlets like the Economist or whatever which had titles like "China makes crypto the official currency!" and then proceeded to advertise some shitty coin which I'm not even sure if it was a real crypto currency. Anyways the comments under that post were fucking full of boomers having heated boomer debates about weird conspiracy theories and unrelated shit. They didn't seem to be taking the bait but for the wrong reasons. A lot of them were saying stuff like "the Chinamen want to take my money? I DON'T THINK SO" etc.
I think it is because boomers started to use the Internet more because of staying inside more etc.
If you have an FB, you could change your birth year to something like 1950 or something and if you start browsing a few boomer stuff for a little while it's gonna start showing you the boomer ads. You can click on "why am I seeing this ad?" and it usually tells you that x advertiser is targeting boomers in y area. It's pretty amusing.
I think it is because boomers started to use the Internet more because of staying inside more etc.
It was happening pre-Covid as well. The biggest thing imo is that the internet in general has become the new cable TV, not just Netflix/Hulu. These people would have been watching Westerns all day long on TMC 20 years ago.
These people would have been watching Westerns all day long on TMC 20 years ago.
This is thankfully still my dad, who got rid of the only computer he ever owned after he retired and no longer was obligated to use e-mail. What a blessing.
It always confuses me how it is possible that every day there is going to be some kind of huge post on Facebook where it's something like "how much is that? Don't use a calculator: 2+4x9-3" and it's gonna have like 995k comments from boomers where 90% of it is wrong answers. Like how many times are you going to play the same shit over and over again? What even is the joy of commenting on it, they're just posting a number there to disappear into the void of 40 new comments/sec.
Also I used to have set my FB age older than I am and I ended up getting a bunch of that boomer action recommended. For instance there recently was some kind of huge crypto scam marketing campaign where there were a bunch of sponsored ads for extremely obviously fake articles in websites that posed as major outlets like the Economist or whatever which had titles like "China makes crypto the official currency!" and then proceeded to advertise some shitty coin which I'm not even sure if it was a real crypto currency. Anyways the comments under that post were fucking full of boomers having heated boomer debates about weird conspiracy theories and unrelated shit. They didn't seem to be taking the bait but for the wrong reasons. A lot of them were saying stuff like "the Chinamen want to take my money? I DON'T THINK SO" etc.
I think it is because boomers started to use the Internet more because of staying inside more etc.
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If you have an FB, you could change your birth year to something like 1950 or something and if you start browsing a few boomer stuff for a little while it's gonna start showing you the boomer ads. You can click on "why am I seeing this ad?" and it usually tells you that x advertiser is targeting boomers in y area. It's pretty amusing.
It was happening pre-Covid as well. The biggest thing imo is that the internet in general has become the new cable TV, not just Netflix/Hulu. These people would have been watching Westerns all day long on TMC 20 years ago.
This is thankfully still my dad, who got rid of the only computer he ever owned after he retired and no longer was obligated to use e-mail. What a blessing.
Reminds me of an old plasma TV my friend got from his grandfather with the Encore Westerns channel logo still burned in, lol.
An ideal socialist society would entail mandatory TCM hours for all boomers.
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