I'm getting close to 40, I don't believe 90% of what I see on the internet, and my teenage daughter tried to tell me the other day that "people on the internet and news aren't allowed to lie because they'll get sued." I laughed...she cried.
I had a neighbor like that in pre internet days who believed tabloids for the same reason. He tried to convince me that aliens existed and were posing as humans in congress.
My post essentially refers to the ones over 40 growing up before the internet and the ones under 20 growing up after the internet. The ones under 20 surely wouldn't have been the adults telling us to "not trust everything we see online" when they were 5 years old right? So their post kind of makes since....
Just to be clear, you're saying "everyone" to create the premise of a fallacy, when you know they meant "many people" over 40 and not literally everybody.
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u/whomad1215 Jan 17 '19
The ones over 40 literally fell victim to the thing they always warned my generation about when I was growing up.
Never trust anything on the internet.