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.

Yeah, I am a millennial, 39 this year, and my dad is far more addicted to his computer than I am, I even work in IT.

He used to sell railroad safety systems (and was a brilliant sales person who actually knew and still knows the technical details of the system)

You and me are pretty similar ages.

I do have some Gen X friends who I think are not doing much better.

I wonder it being a “digital native” gives some level of defense against this kind of stuff versus people who were born when information was newspapers, radio, and the TV news one hour out of the day.

Yeah, have family who 80% of their retired day is sitting in the lazy boy with an iPad locked on Facebook in one hand and cable news on the tv. We’re in Canada, but it’s a lot of CNN.

And it’s not just my family, lot of friends have the same.

It’s a Skinner box. We need to ban these companies, but the government doesn’t have the spine to ban the obvious foreign interference.