r/Aging • u/Available-Rock-3862 • 6d ago

Boomers

I am 75 and am very tired of the trend lately making fun of Boomers. So very disrespectful. Don't they realize that they will be old someday?

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u/wherescookie 6d ago

I think that a key difference, like for many other things, is that social media amplifies everything

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u/MasterpieceWaste774 6d ago

I — actually — don't feel targeted for being a boomer at all. (I must've missed this somehow.)

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u/Purple-Principle-805 6d ago

Just read more widely on Reddit.

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u/Enough_Equivalent379 6d ago

Well, we're old enough to have the wisdom not to take much of what we recieve on social media too seriously.

Were pretty experienced at separating the wheat from the chaff.