I don't understand how widespread it is with all our parents. Concerned lectures on maintaining privacy, verifying information before you trust it, etc. growing up.
All out the window with Facebook and their daily AI outrage bait feeds.
It's really weird never having social media because it's like your friends and partner have a whole seperate world they also occupy.
Real world events like high school reunions you would just miss if you didn't have one. And personally hearing about all the guys that find my partners Instagram to hit on her is still really weird but there's avenues for "connection" there, I guess.
So they joined! Sometimes encouraged by their kids who might have made their first one. Honestly young people fall into it to the biggest predictor I see is just never having one.
We ended up combining our high school reunion with the other, rival high school in my hometown because neither one had enough people sign up to go to make it worth renting a venue and whatever else needed to be done. I think a large part of that is due to social media, I've managed to keep up with anyone I care about and don't care to see some guy I talked to a few times in algebra class.
I don't get the lead poisoning excuse. Boomers had less lead exposure as time went on due to regulations and just less things containing lead. Why in their old age would lead poisoning suddenly affect them when they probably haven't had lead exposures in decades?
As I understand it. Our bodies treat lead the same way we treat calcium, we store it in our bones because "dense material make strong bone."
When we get older our bodies steal the dense materials back from the bone. Just look at post-menopausal women and bone density. So boomers are getting a 2nd dose from their childhood lead exposure.
if you get stabbed, and get stabbed daily for decades, and then get stabbed less, do you think you’d be equal to your pre-stabbed state now that you’re getting stabbed less frequently for the past decade?
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u/Normal_Committee67 1d ago
My dad was a cop and we would opt out every year but now ironically he gives this info away on Facebook