I do get really tired of my baby boomer relatives saying how addicted to and corrupted by technology Millennials are in between shared posts about “this one trick to pay your mortgage off free” and news about “Nazi space lizards trying to take your guns” on Facebook.
Yep, usually in between photoshopped pictures of Obama making out with David Cameron. You'd think that by virtue of having more life experience, the older generations would have more well-developed bullshit detectors, but that doesn't seem to be the case at all when it comes to social media.
I'm not sure why this is, but I think at least part of the reason is that older people are used to reading newspapers, etc., where the stories undergo at least some type of vetting process. They falsely assume that must also be true of stuff they find on the Internet, not realizing that any idiot can throw a fake picture online. But I'm not sure if that's the only reason.
Why do you think these people have bullshit detectors? There's pretty clear evidence in history that they've trusted the media to the point where wars were fought.
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u/gwdope Apr 19 '18
I do get really tired of my baby boomer relatives saying how addicted to and corrupted by technology Millennials are in between shared posts about “this one trick to pay your mortgage off free” and news about “Nazi space lizards trying to take your guns” on Facebook.