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Welcome to Geriatric Social Media

5 pointsby rtonticover 2 years ago

2 comments

lakomenover 2 years ago
My 88 year old mom is using Facebook. It&#x27;s her main source of entertainment and information besides the Google app. Apart from that she pays 23 EUR &#x2F; month for pay-TV you can watch 7 days in retrospect. But she always moans that there is nothing worth watching and there&#x27;s just murder, weapons and killing on TV. And I agree. I watch twitch irl travel streams because that&#x27;s interesting, the gaming for money however is annoying.<p>In any case, I finally deleted my Facebook account for good, despite local government only being available there and nowhere else (wtf?).<p>When I check her FB stream it&#x27;s a lot, and I mean A LOT of clickbait news-y content, nostalgia and just plain radical disinformation. She constantly bitches about the government leadership, and righly so.<p>Idk how she can bear it, but when your only alternatives are traditional TV or paywalled magazines, I guess FB looks attractive.<p>I get into chemtrail and other shady content discussions on a regular basis with her.
coldteaover 2 years ago
It&#x27;s funny because traditional media like theatlantic (and its main audience) are even more geriatric.<p>Pot&#x2F;Kettle...