How did they kill Facebook?
By using it. People don"t post freely when Aunty Carol is gonna comment and snitch
It’s also fun watching your friends call out Uncle Bob and Grandma for being complete racists, and the conversation spiral completely out of control.
I said something like “you think Israel would care more about marginalised people”
My Jewish aunt commented. Then I said I seen some Israelis being disrespectful. Then my friends commented. Then it turned into a shower of shit and I decided not to say anything else.
Have seen here since lol. Seen my uncle and their kids but not her.
If you’re at the poker table and can’t tell who the fish is…
Same way millennials killed Applebee’s.
The kids (not you guys) will just move on to another platform, mate. Depending on the stage of growth, the company will burn through its funding, the owners will cash out, list then cash out, sell the data and move on to the next grift. Circle of life and all that.
Also see vr, llm, gai, etc. In SEA we have a company carsome that was touted as a ‘unicorn’, and I can’t see their value proposition for the life of me.
Weren’t them a “boomer” thing for a long time?
I skipped those, but I’m about to ruin whatever new platform my kids get in to.
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…”Nah. If you started skipping trends already you are free. Just use what you like lol
Well I happen to like embarrassing my kids so…
Carry on. 😆
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I hope that was not serious.Why? It’s a time-honored parenting tradition. And one that doesn’t involve child abuse.
Boomers and child neglect - name a better duo.
Boomers and pulling the ladder up behind them.
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 😁
As is tradition.
Your boomer parents? You’re 40 something?
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 🤷
Sounds about right to me
I’m 30 and I literally have 2 electric skateboards lol
That would be my age.
An old person? On my Lemmy? Gasp
On lemmy? A platform made by those who miss the “good old days” when reddit was good? Full of old people? Impossible.
Wow, you can fuck right off!
* now, where did I leave my reading glasses? *
65 here sonny.
67 here kiddo
How excited will you be when you reach the “nice” age?
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
I do enjoy a round of golf. And have you ever played shuffleboard? It’s quite fun, especially on a cruise.
Shit.
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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… was written on lemmy 😬
Implying we aren’t mostly disgruntled boomers here.
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.
Some genZ here too :) moved from Reddit to Lemmy
Dont forget gen Z tech workers
Get outta here, y’all were in middle school yesterday.
Gen Z are like 20-30 years old by now
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.
My boomer dad has been on Reddit for years. But he just looks at football and fishing subreddits.
Hey now, a lot of us boomers are already on Lemmy.
The responsible ones.
…
I hope…
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.
There are a lot of Boomers trickling into Reddit, and they are killing it even faster with mass reporting people.
They go into subs that shit on Boomers for being themselves, and since Reddit hands out site bans for anything now it ends up destroying a lot of accounts.
I really hope they never find Lemmy.
They’ve been there. So have gen x and millennials and obviously gen z. Y’all are so petty lol
In contrast to the others, Reddit decided to kill itself off before most Boomers have even heard of it:-).
lol you right
It do… It… It do be hittin differently tho.
But Facebook still exists.
I don’t understand the “killed Facebook” thing either. I haven’t used Facebook in almost 10 years but as far as I know it’s still printing money.
Killed Facebook because the people who were into it and enjoyed using it… stopped using it 10 years ago. If I were to log into my Facebook account right now, I would see my mum posting Sovereign Citizen stuff. My aunty sharing photo after photo of my nephews and nieces. My other aunty talking about her later life crisis holidays to South Africa. And advertisement after advertisement for random junk.
If I’m lucky, one of my friends will have posted something like “Photo from Butterfly Effect reunion last night. These guys still kick ass”
“Facebook” is alive and well but it’s a different product than we knew and, whether intended or not, target audience is boomers and terminally online jerkoffs.
Yeah, but have you seen the state of it recently? It’s a shell of its former self
No, and I don’t intend to. Fuck that place.
Maybe but it’s almost a $2trillion dollar company. Might be a shell, but it’s popular.
“Addictive, coercive and profitable” ≠ Popular.
that’s Meta, not Facebook. I’d say now FB is one of their least valuable assets.
Maybe Zuck should add some legs to fb too
I have not, thankfully.
As someone who joined Facebook way back when it was brand spanking new to the public: It’s always sucked. I don’t even remember a single person who chose it over MySpace until way later on when they added games to FB.
I’ll fight you over Farmville. Jk, no you’re right. FB died in the womb. The moment our parents found out about it.
Yep, it still exists. Like a marionetted corpse waltzing around selling garage sale items and finding lost dogs.
I think you’re confusing it with Zuckerberg. Or maybe they’re one and the same?
And by most estimates it has more active users than ever.
It’s no longer “hip” but being hip and being popular are opposing goals.
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.
My dad can hardly use his phone and this sounds absolutely haunting.
My father’s the same but I think moving south really revealed what was already there. This just highlights it more.
start behind the scene subscribing to anti-putin posts and channels and see he changing opinion lol
Ask not what you could do for the algorithm. Ask what the algorithm can do for you.
The future is bright!
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.
I feel that their next war is on education and masculinity.
The latest shots in the former march on by under the banner of ‘woke [literally any noun]’ is ruining our children these days, but that war has been raging since the 80s. ‘They’re’ winning by strangling the purse strings and efficiencies out of public education.
The latter? Masculinity? That one has been a total occupation for hundreds of years already.
Our sisters, mothers, and daughters have been warning us even before the side effects get to them. Of the emotional self-immolation a Patriarchic-controlled society demands of men by violence and shame until ‘Men don’t cry’ can be such poisonous words that many men end up kissing the barrel of a gun than using their lips to communicate their struggles to each other.
It took trauma and the effects of such turning sharpening empathy into a survival mechanism rather than the too often opposite for me to even have been able to introspect myself out of just the more common and pervasive aspects of ‘toxic masculinity’.
Make no mistakes; whatever you want to call ‘hearts and minds’, the twisted craven swine undermining the concept of basic humanity know very well to keep assaulting them. Education and empathy are the only things that can empower an actual successful removal of the Takers’ ability to do the same.
exactly, i got this idea from a brazilian tweet, where she did the same with her mom and it worked lol
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.
The stuff with TikTok lately has really made me reconsider bothering with lemmy tbh. This post is talking about boomers while they say some of the most boomer shit ever lol. The way they blatantly make things up is just sad too
Maybe you could pickup a hobby. Or better yet, you could go talk to someone face to face.
This right here is some boomer shit. Wow.
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.
they are already bad, no need to ruin them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Early 20’s here with 65y/o parents 👋
65 y/o is gen x no? boomers would be from the end of ww2 to the civil rights act wouldn’t they… oh i guess that’s like 60 to 80
all this time i thought my parents were gen x… but they’re actually boomers!
born between 46 and 64 according to wikipedia.
Meaning the last boomer will turn 60 just this year.
My mom’s one of the youngest boomers, born in December 1964. She’s 59. Still fits the boomer stereotype to a T, though.
how can she be 59 if she was born in 64?
edit: I’m stupid, I was sure 2024 was last year…
“born in December 1964”
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i cant do maths apparently
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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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Why?
Chaos.
The sooner it all goes to shit, the sooner we can move on.
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?
