Thank you! So many people here cling to the most obviously fake shit and use Poe’s law as an excuse when they get called out for having the critical thinking skills of a 75 year old.
Yeah but go on Facebook for a bit and you’ll see that the old people who told us not to believe everything we see online are the people who believe everything they see online.
having the critical thinking skills of a 75 year old.
When I came across the term "ageism", I didn't think I'd haver have a need for it. Until I found someone on the internet who literally claims that old people are stupid.
Spend some time on Facebook, old people believe whatever shit they read because they never had to deal with so much information. Try teaching an old person to do something basic on a computer, most of them can’t learn anything that isn’t 100% procedural. Old people came from simpler times and can’t adapt to the rapidly changing world around them. The ones that can are the ones who didn’t stick their head in the sand 40 years ago and decide that they never needed to learn again.
"Spend some time on Facebook"? To get an accurate image of people? That might be the worst advice I've ever got.
If you believe the world was "simpler" 50 years ago, that people didn't need to learn back then, that computers weren't a thing, and that the world didn't change rapidly back then, you're simply wrong.
75 year old people were born in the 40s, not the bronze age.
If you believe the world was "simpler" 50 years ago, that people didn't need to learn back then, that computers weren't a thing, and that the world didn't change rapidly back then, you're simply wrong.
Of course people had to learn, but learning was different back then. It used to be that you learned a procedure and you were set, instead of learning what a machine did you learned the steps you took and treated the rest like magic. It's why old people can't adapt when something changes on a computer, they only memorize steps because that's what got them by in the past. Microsoft had to name their new browser Edge and give it a big E as the logo because so many old people couldn't adapt to not clicking the big E anymore. The way we learn today is very different than in the past because you can't learn the mechanical steps anymore, you have to understand the process. As a result most old people can't handle learning things that aren't just a set of steps because they don't know how to operate any other way.
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u/CircleDog Oct 16 '18
It's fake. Not sjws. Not Anita. Not liberals. Just fake.