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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 serial_dev »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #11
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 d…

It’s all fine, but in that case also do not worry about this hypothetical old person spending time the way they like to.

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Post by eYrKEC2 »

AngryData wrote: post #18
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.

As the old saying goes, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.

In our household, the worst offenders of phones at the dinner tables are the grandparents.

It's as gross as 2 knuckles deep in your nose.

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Post by blakblakarak »

retrac98 wrote: post #19

My parents generation are the most screen addicted people I know. Absolute slaves to Facebook’s algorithm. It’s really disheartening to see.

My Dad’s got early stage dementia and Facebook is an absolute nightmare. The apps infested with AI slop and the algorithm seems to fill his feed with stuff designed to get him worked up (currently badly behaved cyclists even though he no longer drives).

Re: Grandparents are glued to their phones [video]

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Post by colechristensen »

ellyagg wrote: post #24

My aunt is 80 and thank goodness she has an iPhone. She’s bedridden and spends all day on it. She has no children but I lived with her for a while when I moved out of my parent’s, and we text often.

The concern is what you're doing when you're getting older but still able.

The decline is accelerated by muscle weakness which is accelerated by sitting around all day looking at screens.

Re: Grandparents are glued to their phones [video]

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Post by k2enemy »

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.

And also the most likely to fall victims to scams. An elderly family friend lost millions to a pig butchering scam.

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Post by allendoerfer »

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.

Here in Germany they also ignored the demographics, so our social insurance systems (retirement but also health) are heading towards a catastrophe, because there is no capital backing them. They are fundamentally relying on the next generation being bigger or at least equal. This has turned them essentially into Ponzi schemes. The taxpayer has to jump in, making the state less and less able to do anything at all. Of course they now collectively avoid responsibility and slowly milk the young - their own children - dry.

It is truly the most egoistic generation ever.

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