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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
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.
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Enjoyed your post.
I am 81, so quite a bit older than you, but I get tired of my generation blaming others all the time. You reap what you sow, whether personally, your government or anything in life. Reading posts on here condemning young folks while enduring lying and enabling such is so frustrating. Not even a blink when we hear the REAL heroes demeaned....those buried in Normandy really brought me to tears. Not the first time with real heroes.
No, my generation has left a lot of us down and frankly I think young people can actually do a better job.
And before I read posts saying things, which again is predictable on here.......
We are speaking of generations , not specific people who choose to demonstrate and/or riot. Those who riot and destroy are such a very minute minority used as an excuse by older folks like me, to justify and find some fault.
Thanks for a great post.....would it not be wonderful, if we just stopped making generalizations about people ?
Rejecting knowledge is what has brought us to this state. Truth has no value any longer.
Sorry, not meaning to hijack but you are on to the truth here...as painful as it is for some to hear.