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These days, it seems like everyone online is very online, all the time. And since that now includes the elderly (like us) I wanted to know if anyone else has seen their family members become Very Online lately. My stepfather is constantly trying to make me watch leftist Youtube videos, talking about Jimmy Dore and Majority Report, and sending me 5-year-old memes but now they're about Trump (my mother does this too, but they're 10-year-old memes and they're just about how animals are cute). I don't know how or when it happened, I didn't tell him about any of this. He's very C-SPAM and it's off-putting in a 60-something man. Anyone else getting emails from grandma about Q or rare pepes from their uncle?
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seems like a fairly political thread op
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Nov 9, 2018 09:47
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Clawtopsy posted:seems like a fairly political thread op
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Nov 9, 2018 09:49
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How do you get into mordor then? Did they say?
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Nov 9, 2018 09:51
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Robin Williams posted:How do you get into mordor then?
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Nov 9, 2018 09:52
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Recently my mum keeps telling me about YouTube videos she watches. She had an extremely animated and enthusiastic conversation at me about those videos where colourblind people are given chromatic glasses for the first time. She likes baby laughing videos but also watches a lot of self help stuff so I can only pray she doesn't wander into anything political since she is the most naive credulous rube imaginable concerning politics so her ideology is whatever she has last been exposed to.
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Nov 9, 2018 10:01
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The internet sucks and makes normal people horrible. It should be dismantled and burned.
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Nov 9, 2018 10:03
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Moon Atari posted:Recently my mum keeps telling me about YouTube videos she watches. She had an extremely animated and enthusiastic conversation at me about those videos where colourblind people are given chromatic glasses for the first time. She likes baby laughing videos but also watches a lot of self help stuff so I can only pray she doesn't wander into anything political since she is the most naive credulous rube imaginable concerning politics so her ideology is whatever she has last been exposed to.
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Nov 9, 2018 10:06
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The thing about the internet is that everything people type is always about you and you only.
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Nov 9, 2018 10:08
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Moon Atari posted:I can only pray she doesn't wander into anything political since she is the most naive credulous rube imaginable concerning politics so her ideology is whatever she has last been exposed to. show her those autogenerated Elsa/screaming baby videos but tell her it's a series of intricate metaphors about the pros and cons of the gold standard vs. fiat money, then take notes on what her politics becomes and report back. I'm super curious.
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Nov 9, 2018 10:09
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yes but for fortnite
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Nov 9, 2018 10:10
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I liked 00s internet.
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Nov 9, 2018 10:12
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I don't do Facebook so I miss out on all the weird family stuff.
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Nov 9, 2018 10:13
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my mum is VERY ONLINE Very Excited Regarding Your Overly Niche Learning In Nightly Emissions
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Nov 9, 2018 10:13
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Woden posted:I don't do Facebook so I miss out on all the weird family stuff.
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Nov 9, 2018 10:16
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Linux Pirate posted:The internet sucks and makes normal people horrible. It should be dismantled and burned. This. Gobekli Tepe is where the internet was first discovered and that's why they buried it.
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Nov 9, 2018 10:28
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Linux Pirate posted:The internet sucks and makes normal people horrible. It should be dismantled and burned. I am starting to come to this point of view. I have an old friend who somehow discovered 4chan and it's actually destroyed his mind. Not that he was all that stable to begin with but now I can't really even talk to him, it's like a mind virus has taken him over and turned him into a creepy conspiracy person. This is someone that I've know for decades and the shift in his personality was so dramatic that it actually scared me.
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Nov 9, 2018 10:32
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My dad has started dropping phrases like "Liberal Elite" and "The Donald" into conversation which I think suggests he's a bit too internet these days. When he said liberal elite I laughed and asked what site he'd picked that up from, and he told me actually it was a concept he had invented himself.
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Nov 9, 2018 10:40
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My mom loves watching 'Top 10 amazing X-factor audition' compilations. At least she's stopped sharing minion memes, but my aunts still do.
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Nov 9, 2018 10:41
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my parents were on again off again drug addicts when they were younger. after getting a smartphone a year ago my father started a pretty bad coke habit. something about scrolling through facebook just put his addict side in overdrive.
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Nov 9, 2018 10:55
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My grandma likes to troll people for the keks. Edit: I don't even know if I phrased that joke correctly. I'm probably using "keks" wrong. The Dennis System fucked around with this message at 11:03 on Nov 9, 2018 |
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Nov 9, 2018 10:58
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gently caress Face Book
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Nov 9, 2018 11:01
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The Internet Makes You Stupid™
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Nov 9, 2018 11:05
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When I saw my sister a few months ago she had bought Zootropolis along with a bunch of other dvds from a second hand store and I referred to it offhand as the "furry Disney movie". From her puzzled response I inferred that she did not know what furries are, which was surprising to me but also endearing as I had suspected she was at least internet enough to know what a furry is.
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Nov 9, 2018 11:25
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Shin00bie posted:My dad has started dropping phrases like "Liberal Elite" and "The Donald" into conversation which I think suggests he's a bit too internet these days. When he said liberal elite I laughed and asked what site he'd picked that up from, and he told me actually it was a concept he had invented himself. i think your dad is the donald then
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Nov 9, 2018 11:28
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how many of your family members are 9-11 truthers
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Nov 9, 2018 11:30
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on the other hand, my brother is a bit too online for my comfort and occasionally uses terms like "SJW" in real life, which I pretend not to understand. so maybe my sister was doing the same thing
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Nov 9, 2018 11:33
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my mother was addicted to an MMO 10 years ago. now she trolls people on facebook
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Nov 9, 2018 11:39
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nah. i've got a healthy family and a good relationship with them, op
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Nov 9, 2018 11:47
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my mum just does crosswords online and occasionally buys stuff. i think the only other websites she visits are to cheat on her crosswords lol
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Nov 9, 2018 11:58
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Jose posted:i think your dad is the donald then This is most troubling.
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Nov 9, 2018 11:58
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"easy D"
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Nov 9, 2018 11:58
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Goon project: let's fabricate some weird YouTube personality ala Jimmy Dore or Sargon of Akkad or whatever, but with only the bizarrest of niche political ideas to share with our idiot parents. Even being just plain loving weird is better than being extremely online
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Nov 9, 2018 12:17
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My mum first became online well before I did, through dedication to a forum for women obsessed with the Outlander/Cross Stitch series of novels. I believe it was called The Ladies of Lallybroch forum (or LoL forum). The worst argument I have had with her in recent years concerns facebook. She is obsessed with it and has a large group of friends who manage to get into embarrassing online teen style drama despite being in their fifties. The argument was that I had neglected her on mother's day. I had sent her flowers the day before, then taken her out to lunch and given her a decently expensive gift. She was upset and felt neglected because I hadn't posted a photo and comment about how I love my mum, like some of her friend's kids. She knows I don't use my facebook account but to her not engaging in it isn't a perfectly acceptable personal choice, it is a serious faux pas equivalent to showing up at a party and not talking to anyone. She was outright crying that I never post about her (I haven't posted anything on facebook in at least five years). Whereas my dad has a Facebook account for the purpose of organising events with his cycling team, but he doesn't have any interest in friending me or any other family member.
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Nov 9, 2018 12:18
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oof that guy deep dicking your mom on the reg sounds like a real loser, but is this really the right venue to work through your unresolved oedipal issues? (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Nov 9, 2018 12:21
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lol that another mod pulled the trigger, for face reasons
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Nov 9, 2018 12:31
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do you think mods chat to each other via third party email totally circumventing forum private messages?
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Nov 9, 2018 12:33
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That’s just a crazy conspiracy theory. Now get back to your posting, citizen.
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Nov 9, 2018 12:42
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numberoneposter posted:do you think mods chat to each other via third party email totally circumventing forum private messages? They all live together
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Is this a Two Worlds thing? Go away, Two Worlds.
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