[ SECRET POST #4406 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4406 ⌋

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Comments

[soldatsasha]

Yeah, except that ability is exactly why older people feel like the world is stranger and more hostile.

Because for many of them they don't know how to use that technology, or where to even BEGIN with it. Young people have their snapchat and twitter and are talking in slang and memes that are practically a foreign language with people across the world, and meanwhile grandpa maybe MAYBE bought an older iPhone that he can barely figure out how to use even though he bought it bc it was the 'easy-to-use' option. bc the UI was designed for people who already know how to use a smartphone, who've spent their whole lives developing the skills to figure out unfamiliar computer systems and to traverse an online world.

It's the classic 'old people are out of touch' thing, where they're stuck using a checkbook bc they don't trust credit cards. But it's happening for older people WAY FASTER now. technology advances so much faster and culture changes so rapidly now that it's global that if you aren't plugged in nonstop you get left behind.

Hell, I'm only in my 30s and I feel like this too damn often for my liking. I can't even imagine how my parents must feel, or anyone older.

[(Anonymous)]

This is a fair interpretation of that to be honest, and one I wasn't really considering! I was thinking it more in the way that the anon who responded to me was, that people go around acting like everyone sucks and is terrible, and there's no kindness in the world etc, which I do NOT think is true.

However seeing it from the way you mean, yeah I can see why that would be so alienating, and it makes me happy to see my parents embracing technology (my dad skypes his sister in the UK, etc) but I think that helps that he was in a career that was very tech oriented before he retired, and so was my mother.