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I've noticed my boomer parents using instagram and tiktok. I can't tell you how excited I am for them to kill those platforms like they did facebook. (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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[–] 148 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I skipped those, but I’m about to ruin whatever new platform my kids get in to.

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  • [–] [S] 74 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    As is tradition.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Your boomer parents? You're 40 something?

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  • [–] [S] 54 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    That would be my age.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    An old person? On my Lemmy? Gasp

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    65 here sonny.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    67 here kiddo

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Seriously, people past the age of 30 should not be on the internet. They should be on the golf course or playing shuffleboard or rotting away on a retirement ocean cruiseline somewhere.

    /s

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    As an elder 40-something, I agree with you. Problem is, the economy doesn’t. I’ll be working until I die. In the meantime, I need the memes to help keep me numb to all the shit going in around me. Please don’t take those away from me. It’s all I have anymore.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    A lot of us are, yeah. Even with young whippersnappers like yourself fizzing around on your electrified skateboards and what have you, I'm pretty sure the average age here on Lemmy is closer to 40 than 30 🤷

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    ... was written on lemmy 😬

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Implying we aren't mostly disgruntled boomers here.

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  • [–] 67 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'm pretty sure we're mostly disgruntled Millennials and Gen-X'ers.

    Anyhow, it looks like TikTok might finally be heading towards some sort of ban or regulation in the US, so maybe it'll get killed by the Boomers but in a different way.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Nah. If you started skipping trends already you are free. Just use what you like lol

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Well I happen to like embarrassing my kids so…

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    💀
    I hope that was not serious.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Why? It’s a time-honored parenting tradition. And one that doesn’t involve child abuse.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    I'm told that the joy of embarrassing your children is the main upside of parenting, actually.

    Like being Michael Scott/David Brent of The Office on purpose and they have to be the long-suffering employees of Dunder-Mifflin/Wernham Hogg.

    Because no matter how much you play the oaf, some fool still allowed you to be in charge of something important 😁

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    I can't wait to log in to the newest gamer platform only to engage in trash talk with a select group of boys. Three of them, to be exact.

    "I fucked your mom!"
    "Dad, go away..."

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