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My mother and her friends are completely lost to Facebook addiction. It’s like they grew up without any immunity or incoulation from video games, MySpace, etc.
by JohnJamesRambo 7y ago
My mother and her friends are completely lost to Facebook addiction. It’s like they grew up without any immunity or incoulation from video games, MySpace, etc. and Facebook hit with full force to their naive social media immune system. It’s like crack, you can’t get them off of it. Reminds me of the first time I played Everquest. My mother will be at actual family events like birthdays and instead of interacting is mindlessly scrolling her feed in a room alone on a couch instead of making actual memories. It is the only “socialization” she and her friends seem to do now and that is a terrible thing in my opinion.
- emerongi 7y agoSame. It's very weird how the tables have turned on this. Facebook also creates a divide between people that have Facebook and people that don't. It's especially weird when that divide is between you and your immediate family. Luckily I'm someone who isn't too bothered by it.
- jklp 7y agoI see the same thing with my parents though on closer inspection of the data, 65+ yo users use their smartphone less than all the other cohorts on the hart.
- zapita 7y agoIn my experience older Facebook users can spend a lot of time on their desktop computer, too.
- H1Supreme 7y agoSame here, but on my girlfriend's side of the family. At any social gathering, the women in their 60's are glued to their phones the entire time. They play the "here, look at this" game with each other, or anyone that walks past. Although this may be limited to my personal experience, I don't notice it with the men. Some of them still have flip phones.
- specialist 7y agoEvery cohort goes thru a new media adoption lifecycle. Radio, TV, CB-radio, cell phones, MMORPG, etc. Over time, most people will grow out of it. The difference here is that most seniors won't have that opportunity to adapt, due to age (time to live) or declining cognitive function. Most recently, my mother has fallen into the outrage news & talk show cess pool. She'll happily watch history, knitting, antiques, wildlife shows. But once those programs are over, she reverts to the default channels. I'd like someone to create Old People TV. Just happy feel good programming. And parental control type apps for seniors. PS- Even worse are the ads preying on the elderly. Criminal.
- Taylor_OD 7y agoYes. Watching some of the adults in my life shift into being the ones who are constantly on their phones while the kids (adult kids) beg them to put them down and engage is interesting.