Text messages and phone calls. I don’t need to see my boomer relatives racist posts.
That was disappointing, when you grow up thinking your parents are progressive and then as old age and its symptoms happen their guards drop and you find out that they always had some racist tendencies. I guess credit to them suppressing them for so long.
In my parents’ old age they’ve gotten more progressive. I reject the notion that people naturally trend towards conservativism as they age… I just think there are a fuckton of entitled “I got mine” boomers.
I recently read an article that claims people become more progressive as they age, but society becomes more progressive faster, so it just seems like they become conservative.
This certainly has the ring of truthiness to it.
FB got my sweet pre-school teacher who I never, in 30 years, saw be mean to anyone turned into a MAGA who hates people. The programming worked way too well.
We just didn’t see it in the past because we were all kinda racist. But we grew out of it.
Seriously, every time I see stuff like this, I just wonder if people have completely forgotten that you can text and call your family and friends.
This is the way.
I’m the opposite. I don’t need to see my Gen Z relatives desperate pleas for attention.
My boomer relatives are relatively liberal and don’t feel the need to share more than the vacation they’re on, the cocktail they’re drinking, or their high score on candy crush.
Edit: I assume the downvotes are from butthurt Gen Zers. I don’t mean to generalize, I can’t imagine anyone doing that when discussing an entire generation, I’m simply offering my own personal experience. When my cousin is posting photos of himself in a banana hammock and my sister is posting daily cringe videos of her words of “advice”, AND IG keeps trying to show me this because the algorithm is trash, this keeps me off social media. Right, I should just not “follow” my relatives. Or, I could just stay away entirely. It’s fine.
There are also these crazy things called SMS and phone calls
Signal
I don’t. They have my phone number. They can text or call.
What? You don’t use phone as a phone anymore?
lol you are all such boomers. this thread has been hilarious
I’m a millennial and don’t use Facebook. None of my zoomer family members use Facebook. In fact the only people I know who do use it are boomers.
that’s why I found it so funny. all of these responses could have been taken straight from a Facebook comment section
a phone number
i pick up my phone and call em…
That’s the funny part - I don’t!
I know where they live and have their phone number
Lemmy is my only online presence. I use…
My phone.
honestly it’s sort of useless for that function. The only thing my family posts is dumb crap. I still basically have to see them or talk to them to actually catch up. As a means of keeping up with people I have found FB as practically useless.
They can contact me using those neat little messages that you can send with PayPal transactions
Signal, texting, emails. I’ve never been on Facebook, and never will be. I prefer to not be spied upon by evil billionaires.
Only hearing from family when they deem it important enough to pick up a phone and call or text me directly is one of the benefits of not having social media presence with non any anonymous accounts for me.
Texting. My parents and sister in law keep me in the loop of what’s going on with everyone else. I’ve never had a Facebook and they all know how to get in touch with me if they want to. Half of them won’t even talk to the other half due to drama people started on Facebook anyway and that was years before all the Trump shit started. Social media is the worst thing that ever happened to society.
