• Endorkend@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      And the late Gen-Xers, who, if they were nerds, often were the first to grow up with computers and internet in their lives.

      I’m 45, I know plenty people my age who are grandparents.

      Me personally, I was always on the bleeding edge of tech, worked in tech all my professional life too, so I’m less affected by this behavior.

      But it makes it really hard to keep in touch with people my age online.

      I was one of the first to join Facebook and one of the first to abandon it. But I had to make a new Facebook account about 5 years ago because these days my whole family keeps in touch through Facebook and sets up family gatherings through it and Whatsapp and lost the ability to text me that info …

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      1 year ago

      I think that’s the main demographic of Lemmy from what I can gather. There is definitely a cohort of younger people, but most of us are due for colonoscopies