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Exactly. This line of reasoning is just an excuse that people use to justify maintaining the status quo rather than doing some hard work to change it. These g
by gooseus 7y ago
Exactly. This line of reasoning is just an excuse that people use to justify maintaining the status quo rather than doing some hard work to change it.
These grandpeople had to have been using something else 10 years ago to communicate with their grandkids... and then over these 10 years then simultaneously learned how to use FB, forgot how to use that other technology they'd used their whole life, and also lost the ability to learn how to use any other communication technology?
Not impossible with cognitive deterioration, but probably a lot more rare than this excuse.
If my grandparents were still alive today I'd just tell them that Facebook was controlled by the Democrats and we should use X,Y, or Z instead of effectively donating to Obama's campaign. They'd have deleted the app and gone back to text messages and phone calls by the end of dinner.
- inflatableDodo 7y agoInteresting tactic. I have started telling people that I have joined the technological wing of the Amish and that Facebook was built by the devil. It gets very little push-back compared to listing more concrete reasons, complete with examples, of Facebook's actual documented behaviour. Doing that gets me nowhere fast, but if I use exaggerated nonsense people seem to just go along with it while nodding sagely.