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'What a weird period of time they lived in.' (i.pinimg.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/funny@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The phone is the keystone for the young comment. Even though ime boomers use their phones more than younger generations, I see more boomer memes about "phone use hahaha" than any other

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I just find it funny that younger people feel instantly targeted when it’s about their phones. I mean, I use my phone all the time as well, but I’m still honest enough to admit how ridiculous this whole phone situation is.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    It's probably the 2 decades of constant deluge of lame memes making fun of us and endless news articles on how we used our phones too much

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    The boomers that have embraced technology probably have equal screentime or more since they are retired.

    I think the critique sometimes does apply to the younger gen though because a Boomer has had both life with and without phones and can reflect on that and also solve issues outside of the phone realm because that's how they experience life prephone era.

    For example if a young trainee struggles with software, and I ask what they are waiting on, they will say I emailed the vendor last week, just waiting for a reply, whereas the Boomer dude calls the vendor the next day if the email didn't get a response, and speaks to a person directly and gets an answer sooner.

    And thus we have those memes of a young persons phone ringing and them sweating and horrified that their buddy just called them out of the blue.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    It’s not hard to do when literally 90% of people, young and old, are buried in their phone each and every day you go to work on public transportation, many of them with this stupid smile on their faces they exchange silly things with their loved ones. I find it so fascinating and pretty funny to witness, so it’s easy to make a joke about.

    And then I realize that I’m on my phone as well. 🤣 At least not while I’m walking, I just can’t do it. I have keep an eye out and dodge those that do, haha.

    If you think I’m exaggerating, come walk around here for a bit!

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago*

    Its a stereotype like any other joke.

    But funniest things I have seen is where people dependent on tech, lack general awareness skills.

    There was a girl dropped off to meet a friend in our suburb, the friend was outside but a different area less than 100 feet away. They had their heads down texting each other what looked like "where you at?" "I'm over here" type Convo, and could have been using a location type app.

    They wandered around, crossing the street, and walking up and down missing each other, until they eventually were heading directly toward each other and would have collided. They could have saved a few minutes by just looking up and doing a head swivel.

    I also saw the same with a Skip-the-Dishes guy on foot following his app to deliver the bag of food, he was half a house off location and going up on the wrong porch, and the lady is out on her porch saying that's mine, your are delivering over here. He was adimant he had to drop it per the app location, and went off the other way.

    So I said dude forget the GPS location , what is the house number, he gave me the number, and I said that's that house with the lady on the porch, see the numbers on the post over her porch. Then a light bulb went off for him.

    But as a balanced bash against boomer generation, my mom thinks WiFi comes through the AC cord to her laptop, and will not accept my explanation of WiFi

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