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Grandparents are glued to their phones [video]

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Re: Grandparents are glued to their phones [video]

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Post by toomuchtodo »

Simulacra wrote: post #2

Maybe a solution is to spend more time with grandparents, so that they have something more than just technology to keep them company.

If someone would like to and is willing to make the time, that’s fine, but you don’t owe them this if they are not a good person or worth spending time with imho. Connection and community is earned, not a given. My lived experience is there are some good old people you strive to make time with, some who are fine but I wouldn’t go out of my way to make time for, and some who are just terrible people who are going to die alone because of who they are. Your life experience and decisioning process about how and with whom to spend precious, non renewable time may differ.

Don’t set yourself on fire to keep someone else warm.

Re: Grandparents are glued to their phones [video]

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Post by nicbou »

susam wrote: post #9

Fortunately, I could never get used to the small screens of mobile phones as a serious computing or web browsing device. So my use of my mobile phone is limited to basic tasks like making calls, sending messages, and sometimes, reluctantly typing emails when I don't have a laptop handy. My primary computing and web browsing device remains my laptop, with Emacs and Firefox being my main tools. One thing that does mana…

Try Unhook (desktop) and Untrap (iOS). At this point, my YouTube experience is just the channels I subscribe to, and the video player. It reduced my usage to almost zero.

I'm not exactly curing cancer, but my media consumption is more moderate and mindful now.

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Post by foobarchu »

Simulacra wrote: post #2

Maybe a solution is to spend more time with grandparents, so that they have something more than just technology to keep them company.

Doesn't always help. My mother (of grandparent age but coincidentally had 5 kids who didn't want to procreate) stares at her phone 95% of the time when I visit. I'll be telling a story and she's on Facebook, doesn't even look up. She's even been called out in it by my sibling who lives with them, to no avail.

Luckily she doesn't fall for right wing propaganda all over the Internet, but she sure does fall for every single piece of Trump rage bait out there.

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Post by rrr_oh_man »

rationalist wrote: post #10
analog8374 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know a lot of old bored retired people. They need something physical and social. Like softball or something. But compatible with their decripitude. I hook them up with each other. There are parties. Still working on the softball part. Ideas are welcome

> I hook them up with each other. There are parties. OnlyGrandparents.com? (I looked it up, the domain name was registered six days ago!)

OnlyGrans.com is available for only $50k

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Post by rrr_oh_man »

50208 wrote: post #12

Seniors are the most vulnerable people on the internet, the most likely to be fooled by disinformation, the most likely to vote, and are one of the biggest threats to civil society. Boomers are destroying what previous generations have built.

> the most likely to vote

Well... who's fault is that.

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Post by HNisCIS »

rrr_oh_man wrote: post #17
50208 wrote: post #12

Seniors are the most vulnerable people on the internet, the most likely to be fooled by disinformation, the most likely to vote, and are one of the biggest threats to civil society. Boomers are destroying what previous generations have built.

> the most likely to vote Well... who's fault is that.

It's because election day is a weekday and the rest of us have to keep up with the grind. It's entirely because they don't have jobs
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