I've noticed my boomer parents using Instagram and tik tok. I can't tell you how excited I am for them to kill those platforms like they did facebook.

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• deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • Daft_ish@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As is tradition.

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    • Redredme@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Your boomer parents? You’re 40 something?

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    … was written on lemmy 😬

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    • Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Implying we aren’t mostly disgruntled boomers here.

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  • aStonedSanta@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well I happen to like embarrassing my kids so…

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  • neidu2@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can’t wait to log in to the newest platform only to engage in trash talk.

    “I fucked your mom!”
    “Dad, go away…”

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• user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My dad really changed since joining TikTok. Now that’s all he talks about. Come look at this, come look at this,…
  “But I am busy.”
  “Oh, come on, it’s short.”
  “Look. See? People love Putin.”

  For fucks sake… Then he proceeds to loudly curse when he gets yet another account banned for posting some trash.
  When I try to talk to him, I am met with “Wait, I just have to finish this video.” then later he complains I don’t talk with him. ¿?

  I mean, it’s not just TikTok alone, he uses Facebook, TikTok and VKontakte, but I feel like that had the biggest influence.

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  • Vilian@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    start behing the scene subscribing to anti-putin posts and channels and see he changing opinion lol

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    • Gork@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ask not what you could do for the algorithm. Ask what the algorithm can do for you.

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    • Alteon@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      100%. This actually works. Most boomers are not technologically late enough to track subscriptions and such.

      There was a YouTube video not a documentary (similar to The Brainwashing of My Dad) where their father went down the rabbithole, but they started subscribing them to better news sources, and eventually to left-leaning news sources, and he did a whole 180°.

      Fear is like a drug. It’s addictive, and rightwing media sources have cracked the formula on how to get people addicted to it, and it can happen to ANYONE. The uneducated to the well-educated. The only thing that makes you immune to it is critical thinking and empathy - which is why I feel that their next war is on education and masculinity. They are literally trying to perfect the addiction so you can never leave it.

      This is part of the reason why education is so insanely important.

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  • Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My father’s the same but I think moving south really revealed what was already there. This just highlights it more.

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  • BruceTwarzen@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My dad can hardly use his phone and this sounds absolutely haunting.

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• sodalite@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  once the boomers get there and start liking it, that’s when you know it’s about to reach peak and crash hard. my parents are talking about reddit. case in point.

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  • OpenStars@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In contrast to the others, Reddit decided to kill itself off before most Boomers have even heard of it:-).

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    • sodalite@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      lol you right

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  • Kabloink@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hey now, a lot of us boomers are already on Lemmy.

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    • Daft_ish@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The boomers I know haven’t found reddit yet so there is still time. It’s not that boomers are on a platform, it’s when boomers like my parents get there that shit starts to spiral out.

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    • EtherWhack@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The responsible ones.

      …

      I hope…

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  • SlapnutsGT@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My boomer dad has been on Reddit for years. But he just looks at football and fishing subreddits.

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  • Misconduct@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’ve been there. So have gen x and millennials and obviously gen z. Y’all are so petty lol

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• Sanyanov@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not before their brains start to rot by using those in the first place

  It’s scary to see how even the older generation gains reduced attention span, reduced ability to learn and need for instant gratification on this short dopamine machine.

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  • HaywardT@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I experience it myself. I know I am an addict and need to quit. Yet here I am.

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    • Sanyanov@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s a loop that is hard to quit once you’ve entered it.

      I wish you success; maybe a good digital detox on the countryside with some simple books, field work and joys may help to reset your mind?

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• Nurgle@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I hate to break it you my not so tech savvy friend, but boomers on tiktok is not going to destroy tiktok like it did Facebook. The algo will basically only show their content to other boomers and young people will largely be unaware of it.

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  • Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The same was true of Facebook my not-so-socially-savvy friend. Kids will stop using it once they realise grandma is on there because it is no longer cool.

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    • Nurgle@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Again, Facebook and TikTok operate differently. One is a social network, the other is a short form video platform. A social network is inherently dependent on its users. Did YouTube die when it became widely adopted??

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    • Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Facebook was best when people used to call their friends cocksuckers and put up photos of people being drunk on the floor.

      Then it stopped because everyone’s family could see and it stopped being funny.

      Then the ads really killed itm

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  • ChowJeeBai@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Until you get the inevitable ‘hey nurgs, isnt this your mom?’ from your friends.

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  • soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You do know kids can find out grandma is on tiktok other ways than just the site itself? Touch grass, remember there’s a world outside

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    • tryptaminev@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But would anybody be bothered by it, if there’s no interaction there? Boomers destroyed Facebook for younger audiences, as all of a sudden parents would join in on conversations with your friends in the comments under a photo. You would link an article about a political issue and your reactionary uncle would proceed to call everyone who reads it a damn commy that needs to go to the army to learn some real life.

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    • Nurgle@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      lol. I can’t tell if you just don’t know any young people or if it’s that you don’t know the difference between a social network and a short term video app. (Or you’re just mad cause tiktok = bad.)

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• ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh don’t worry, OP, soon you’ll be a cranky old perosn who’ll be complaining about whatever social media the young’uns are using and doing your part to “kill” something else by using it

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  • Daft_ish@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Promise?

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    • Synnr@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Facebook was all those things in the beginning.

      Reddit was all those things in the beginning.

      Twitter was all those things in the beginning.

      The Internet in general was all those things in the beginning.

      I’ve never used IG/TT but I assume they were all those things in the beginning.

      Lemmy will probably be said to be most of those things in the beginning.

      With age comes wisdom, once you’ve seen the pattern happen enough times, which can only come with age.

      Sincerely, One of those old people.

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• PatFussy@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Kids think anyone older than 25 are boomers. I would wager that the average age here on Lemmy is ~30. So by default, we are all boomers here.

  With that said, follow my only fans account for cat news and all things related cats at

  OnlyCatFans

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  • blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Expected Rick Roll but was still sad you didn’t have an Only fans for cats. That would probably make decent money out of spite.

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  • force@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    spoiler

    i was expecting actual cats

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  • Misconduct@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You really sound like boomers in this whole post tbh. TikTok hasn’t been just full of kids or whatever in years… My page is full of hydroponic farmers, cat videos, game memes, d&d stuff, and other comedy shit. Almost all of which are channels run by millennials around my own age.

    You guys are so out of touch and you frankly look goofy with this petty shit.

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    • PatFussy@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The vast vast vast majority of the content farmed on tik tok is not hydroponic farmers or d&d related lmao

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• Misconduct@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People of all ages have been on TikTok for years now… Y’all are the ones sounding like boomers lol

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  • Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Aboomersayswhat

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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Kill” those platforms just means “I don’t use it”. Petty absurd thing to say considering how huge FB still is.

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  • asyncrosaurus@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    considering how huge FB still is.

    FB is only huge because they’ve expanded all over the hlobe, even providing internet to developing nations to facilitate growth. In reality they’ve been bleeding the original Western users that signed up between '04-'10, and growth among new generations flatland a long time ago. There’s a reason Meta aggressively expanded to other ventures (or attempt to create platforms) like Instagram, Threads, what’s app, VR and metaverse. Metas only chance at sustainable growth and capturing young people is to build or buy platforms young people will use, because it ain’t Facebook.

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    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Are you arbitrarily adding conditions and moving the goalposts? I said FB is huge, and that is true. Your rebuttal “only because” really doesn’t change that, if anything it reinforces it. It also doesn’t change the fact that FB hasn’t been “killed” as originally postulated.

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    • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      FB is only huge because they’ve expanded all over the globe, even providing internet to developing nations to facilitate new user acquisition

      And they only say Godzilla is huge because she can crush a tank with her foot.

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    • guacupado@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “Facebook is only huge because they’re huge.” lmao

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  • Lazylazycat@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean, is it? It’s pretty much just boomers using it regularly now.

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    • Godric@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’sjust the Boomers, it’s dead, why the fuck would companies want to market to people with lots of disposable income and nothing to do all day???

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    • Silentiea@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This might surprise you to learn, but boomers are, in fact, people. They might not be the driving force behind the parts of the digital economy you care about, but they still count. They still make money for the services they use.

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  • MataVatnik@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I know very few people that use Facebook, mostly for groups or market if they are. Compare that to a time where everyone was on Facebook, Facebook is dead.

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• StereoTrespasser@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Someday kids will understand when the baby boomers were actually born.

  Or, I guess OP is a middle-aged person complaining about his elderly parents being on a phone app.

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  • Signtist@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean, I’m only 30 and my parents are boomers. They weren’t even that old when they had me. - I’d imagine there’s plenty of early-20’s kids running around with boomer parents.

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    • dfc09@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Early 20’s here with 65y/o parents 👋

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    • breakcore@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, I’m in my early twenties and my mom is in her sixties. A friend of mine is in her mid twenties and her parents are both in their sixties, too. Some people wait longer to have kids for various reasons. Luckily, my mom barely knows how to open Chrome, so at least I don’t have to worry about her getting addicted to TikTok lmao.

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  • FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    elderly is a bit harsh referring to people in their 60’s.

    I know a lot of boomers (yes, baby boomers) who keep talking about tiktok.

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  • BakerBagel@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Dude at my work is 68 and and talks about what he saw on TikTok every day. Even my 93 year-old aint jas a smartphone these days.

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• WoahWoah@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Uh oh, you’re becoming the generation affixed to social media platforms.

  Oh, you’ll try to hang on, I’m sure you’ve got a BlueSky and ZingZang account, probably dabble in Xruddle to stay “cool,” but you’re whining about dated platforms that most people younger than you are already moving beyond.

  Fight. Fight against the dying of the light!

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  • Daft_ish@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Whining? I’m fucking stoked.

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    • Misconduct@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Stoked about a silly and out of touch scenario you made up entirely in your head lmao. This really is soke Facebook level shit

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• smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But Facebook still exists.

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  • Daft_ish@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yep, it still exists. Like a marionettes corpse waltzing around selling garage sale items and finding lost dogs.

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    • smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think you’re confusing it with Zuckerberg. Or maybe they’re one and the same?

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  • LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, but have you seen the state of it recently? It’s a shell of its former self

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    • CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe but it’s almost a $2trillion dollar company. Might be a shell, but it’s popular.

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As someone who joined Facebook way back when it was brand spanking new to the public: It’s always sucked.

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    • smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, and I don’t intend to. Fuck that place.

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    • Holzkohlen@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have not, thankfully.

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• Speculater@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Same with Reddit! My mother-in-law recently said, “I looked it up on Reddit.”

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• Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If by kill you mean turn into a cesspool of right wing extremist propaganda and incel shit only a boomer could spout and still fuck, then most platforms are already there or pretty close.

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• Default_Defect@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Never felt the need to join tiktok, my friends and family on it kept sending me links to it that were videos that I had already seen weeks ago somewhere else.

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To everyone defending the elderly: Have you considered they’re not ruining these sites because they’re old, but because they’re baby boomers specifically?

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• yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s harder for them to kill since the algorithm on TikTok is so strong it isolates the demographics.

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• Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How did they kill Facebook?

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• postmateDumbass@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Clean Your Room Challenge incomming

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• wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It do… It… It do be hittin differently tho.

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• Moonrise2473@feddit.it ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Instagram? Yes because now it’s Facebook with a different skin

  TikTok I don’t think so: main problem with FB/IG is that you’ll get “friend requests” from all your family, and the algorithm is really strong on snitching you. Eventually you would need to create custom viewing permission lists (which nobody does) or stop posting stuff if you don’t want getting comments from your family. With TikTok you get videos from strangers and your videos gets shared to strangers, it’s unlikely that the algorithm pushes your stuff to your relatives

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• mysoulishome@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think TikTok is at its peak and will be sad if it goes to shit like Insta and Facebook. Although I am a Gen Xer it currently fills the holes that Twitter and Reddit left empty…I see what is trending, cool stuff, news, cute animals and broaden my horizons with lgbtq and black issues. Of course it’s not the same experience for everyone but I find it pretty fulfilling a lot of times as social media, entertainment etc.

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• Smoogs@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wish people hated the brigading proudboys this much. They would be more deserving.

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• danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Aren’t actual boomers? Or just slang for people older than 40?

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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  they are already bad, no need to ruin them.

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• moitoi@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Weren’t them a “boomer” thing for a long time?

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• yoz@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yea…get more boomers on shit platforms. My boomer uncle has got apple watch, apple phone and everything in his house is “smart” appliances. All i can say is He has lost his fucking mind!

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• VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The thing you kids don’t understand about entering middle age is yes you’ll see thy thing you hated because kids use it die but kids don’t stop- there will be something that replaces it which will be even more alien and distressing for you

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• Arthur_Leywin@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why?

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• zettajon@lemdro.id ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As a 34 year old, my wider circle already killed Instagram. They post memes, news videos, and in some stories - a picture with million words on them. There already is a social media platform for this. Know what? FACEBOOK. If you’re going to use Instagram like Facebook, just use Facebook. I wish Instagram would go back to being used for just photo/short video updates and that’s it.

  Took a nice photo of your pet? Instagram. Recorded a clip on your XSX/PS5 and want to share? Facebook. Made a short video montage of clips of your recent road trip? Instagram. Took a video of your cousin’s graduation? The video is 5+ minutes so Facebook.

  I miss the intent of Instagram. There is a mood I’m in to want to see a ton of crap, and when I’m in that mood, I’d use Facebook to dig through all the updates. I liked Instagram for its simplicity. Been using Instagram since I first got my iPod Touch 4, and many of my friends in college used it as I wrote above. The same people no longer do it.

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