• pdxfed@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Older people can be just as bad as young ones about phone addiction and poor habits let alone manners

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      47 minutes ago

      I was on vacation with my girlfriend and we met up with her parents abd went to dinner with some of their friends. All in their late 60es early 70es. Me and my girlfriend are around 40 and the kids 5 to 8. The children aren’t really alliwed on their phones and i thought it was rather rude to hang on my phone. Then i saw these elderly people either playimg candy crush or something similar or asking their phone 20 timea in a row how long the coastline in italy was, or similar questions. It was way too loud for chatgpt or Gemini or whatever to pick anything up, so they just kept asking. It was quite bizzare to me, because 30 years ago, i would’ve been the kid on a gameboy and people their age would tell me that it’s bad and rude.

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      17 hours ago

      My mother was constantly on her phone playing games or scrolling social media/TikTok/YouTube. Even when her favorite shows were on she barely paid any attention.

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        13 hours ago

        My mom used to knit during shows, and either miss a plot point, or lose count of a stitch and have to unravel stuff.

        For movies, she was notorious for falling asleep and getting upset that we finished watching it anyway.

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      18 hours ago

      Lol my grandma had phone additiction long before smart phones. Watching TV before steaming really sucked with her in room.

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        15 hours ago

        My grandma is addicted to porn on her phone she just constantly goons.

        You walk into her room at the nursing house and her fingers are wrinkly like she just got out of the bath and it smells like day old tuna salad.