>>11418519>>11418557>>11418601I think the reason why boomers are so susceptible to falling down the rabbit hole and becoming terminally online is that they didn't grow up with the internet so weren't educated on it, specifically about what to believe and not believe on the internet. In the case of late millenials/zoomers they were literally educated on it in classrooms as society became more aware of online predators and catfishes and so they had internet safety classes where it was drilled into them "Don't believe what you see on the internet, doubt it all." Boomers never had that they just auto believe it.
Like my mom just believes things she sees on Facebook and thinks its true, she doesn't grasp the concept of "people lie on the internet" she doesn't get misinfo or trolling. She believes that ridiculous "They (dunno who they are) are gonna make Santa genderqueer to be more inclusive" troll post every single year. And she doesn't realize "Hey I see this post every year and it never happens."
I think for a lot of boomers it all started around Covid lockdown and they were stuck in the house with nothing to do and started actively using the internet and being involved with it for the first time. There are tons of articles out there about people finding that their Grandmas etc. who were perfectly ordinary, pleasant people before lockdown ended up coming out of lockdown as complete Q conspiracy theorists who would talk nothing but politics and rants about "the libs" all day
I think a lot of boomers also confuse shit that goes on on the internet with reality too much. The stuff you see on Twitter isn't the stuff the represents the everyday.
