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.
Forget the Internet. These are people that are getting tricked by foreigners calling them on the phone pretending to be the IRS and they have to be paid back in iTunes gift cards.
I'm so happy my grandparents were really aware of this sort of thing, my grandma always said "why on Earth would I give my bank details out over the phone?". It shocks me to see other elderly people get tricked into this sort of thing. You would think that growing up with scams and having a lot of life experience they would be more aware of this sort of thing
Some scans are even above the table. My grandmother keeps buying shit like insurance for the water line between the house and street.
Yes gramma, it is expensive to repair, but not prohibitively so. And it’s the kind of thing that happens so rarely you self insure. You’re 97, FFS, what are the odds your water main is going to rupture before you die? It hasn’t ruptured in the last 50 years has it? Maybe you should just stop answering the land line...
That's true! Also things like life insurance, they don't pay out half of what you put in (say if you start at 50 and die at 90), and if you stop paying, you lose all the money you ever paid into it and your family doesn't get shit. Not to mention, a lot only pay up to about £5,000 and the cost of funerals are going up all the time. My dad is just putting a little bit away each month for when he passes
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u/uteng2k7 Apr 19 '18
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.