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Originally Posted by sail33or
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3. Social Media was invented and is run by the younger generation.
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Categorically untrue. What you KNOW of social media was founded by and is run by a younger generation. But that just means you were either completely unaware of the world around you, or you have forgotten, everything that happened before the year 2000.
The first public BBS was founded in 1978 by Ward Christiansen, who is now 74 years old. He worked for IBM from the late 1960's until he retired as a tech sales specialist in 2012. That would be the person that the salespeople went to when THEY had tech issues.
I joined the BBS system in 1990 when I had my first dial-up modem, and I've been social networking on the internet ever since. I was a file librarian and regularly featured chat host on Prodigy, and hung out in chat rooms on AOL. I still use what people might remember as the Netscape browser from the first days of the WWW, now known as the SeaMonkey Suite, in addition to Chrome and MS Edge. I used to hang out in IRC channels back in the day (it still exists and is still used), and IRC was created in 1988 by a guy who was born in 1967. That means he's in his 50's, just barely out of the boomer generation and into GenX.
I'm almost 60. My dad introduced me to the BBS system, and he's currently 84.
I hate when seniors use the excuse of being of the older generation to get out of understanding the internet, or social media. It is a choice to reject knowledge, it isn't age. The guy who built the first computer is older than most of you. Be honest with yourselves and admit that you just never were interested in learning it til recently. And stop using your age as an excuse to not know.