Social media addiction affecting boomers, BBC hears

“Water is wet”.

This is based on my personal observations. The Boomers in my own family distrust all doctors because of what ever adolf1488 or whoever is posting on Twitter. And they seem to be entertained by some of the most obvious AI slop videos that feels like the digital version of jingling keys in front of a toddler’s face.

The same people that told me that “TV will rot my brain” seem to have no information literacy.

Boomers are definitely weak against AI slop.

I have one parent that’s silent generation and one that’s boomer and the silent generation parent is way more functional on this than the boomer.

Something about that generation made them pretty unprepared for life.

Weak to slop and they don’t seem to have an internal “okay that’s enough I should put my phone down” voice.

Even young people I know who are on their phones a lot have some concept that it’s time to look up and forward, but endless content seems irresistible to the brains of boomers.