- Conyak ( @Conyak@lemmy.tf ) English99•4 months ago
Text messages and phone calls. I don’t need to see my boomer relatives racist posts.
- Rhaedas ( @Rhaedas@fedia.io ) 16•4 months ago
That was disappointing, when you grow up thinking your parents are progressive and then as old age and its symptoms happen their guards drop and you find out that they always had some racist tendencies. I guess credit to them suppressing them for so long.
- Conyak ( @Conyak@lemmy.tf ) English6•4 months ago
I am originally from the south but my mother joined the Air Force and we moved away after she divorced my dad when I was very young. I’m so glad that I was able to experience life outside of that racist bubble. I’m not sure how I would have turned out had I grown up there.
- Olivia ( @Bristle1744@lemmy.today ) 1•4 months ago
Probably racist as well.
Source: anonymous with an irrational hatred of the French, despite several generations removed from the French colonies.
- SecretPancake ( @SecretPancake@feddit.de ) 5•4 months ago
We just didn’t see it in the past because we were all kinda racist. But we grew out of it.
- katy ✨ ( @cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•4 months ago
i really must be lucky because my mum and dad are as liberal and accepting as can be. i guess i was just lucky to grow up in massachusetts and attend a pretty liberal methodist church. my pastor growing up even hand wrote me a letter when i came out as trans and apologised for how some of the church needs to change.
- EldritchFeminity ( @EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•4 months ago
How close did you grow up to Boston, or did your parents live in a city for a period of time? The closer you get to a city, the more liberal the population becomes, and there are some pretty backwoods areas of Massachusetts. My dad was conservative until he went to Boston College and worked at the bank collecting loans from the poorer sections of the city. Even Cape Cod had MAGA protesters yelling at the Bourne Bridge about the plan to house immigrants on the Air Force base for all 4 years of Trump’s reign of terror, and I could probably still find the Trump 2016 flag that I used to drive by all the time.
- katy ✨ ( @cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•4 months ago
i was always outside of worcester actually so i only got to go into boston occasionally i grew up in grafton, northbridge, and millbury and went to church in shrewsbury. :)
- EldritchFeminity ( @EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•4 months ago
That’s pretty similar to me, though I grew up just over the bridges on the Cape. I always thought we were in a super liberal area being in Massachusetts (plus we were like halfway between P-Town and Boston), but as I got older, I was shocked by just how conservative it is there. It’s like a bastion of snowbirds’ summer homes and retirees who all care more about their property taxes than the kids who live there.
- katy ✨ ( @cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•4 months ago
yeah millbury tends to me more democratic but then auburn and leicester is more republican :P
honestly i do want to move overseas just as a goal but if that doesn’t happen, i’d love to move to salem or northampton
- Midnitte ( @Midnitte@beehaw.org ) English1•4 months ago
This, but it was more surprising for other relatives, aunts and uncles mostly.
Like, Jesus Aunt Beth, I didn’t realize you religiously watched Glenn Beck and believe Muslims are trying to take over American by genetic conquest.
- oxjox ( @oxjox@lemmy.ml ) English5•4 months ago
I’m the opposite. I don’t need to see my Gen Z relatives desperate pleas for attention.
My boomer relatives are relatively liberal and don’t feel the need to share more than the vacation they’re on, the cocktail they’re drinking, or their high score on candy crush.
Edit: I assume the downvotes are from butthurt Gen Zers. I don’t mean to generalize, I can’t imagine anyone doing that when discussing an entire generation, I’m simply offering my own personal experience. When my cousin is posting photos of himself in a banana hammock and my sister is posting daily cringe videos of her words of “advice”, AND IG keeps trying to show me this because the algorithm is trash, this keeps me off social media. Right, I should just not “follow” my relatives. Or, I could just stay away entirely. It’s fine.
- hungryphrog ( @hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 4•4 months ago
Seriously, every time I see stuff like this, I just wonder if people have completely forgotten that you can text and call your family and friends.
- pH3ra ( @pH3ra@lemmy.ml ) 39•4 months ago
- ImplyingImplications ( @ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ) 36•4 months ago
I don’t. They have my phone number. They can text or call.
- TheButtonJustSpins ( @TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub ) English28•4 months ago
I don’t use social media to stay in contact with family; I use various messaging/call technologies.
- Björn Tantau ( @bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ) 22•4 months ago
A private Signal group for nobody besides us.
- maxprime ( @maxprime@lemmy.ml ) 2•4 months ago
Yeah it took a while to get everyone onboard but signal has been the only messaging app that I use. Now even some of my friends and family use it for chats I’m not part of.
I donate $1/year per person I convinced to use it.
- Dippy ( @Dippy@beehaw.org ) 18•4 months ago
I dont
- BruceTwarzen ( @BruceTwarzen@kbin.social ) 18•4 months ago
I know where they live and have their phone number
- oxjox ( @oxjox@lemmy.ml ) English16•4 months ago
SMS and telephone and IRL.
I haven’t used Facebook for over ten years. I was using Instagram for a while but the algorithm makes using it utterly pointless.
Do you really need to be on top of everyone all the time? Give your relationships room to breathe. Allow yourself to have engaging conversations with people to catch up and get to know them and the things that matter most to them. Allow yourself the liberty of not knowing the most ridiculous crap that they choose to share with the world.
Edit: Oh! I have a friend who I turned on to GroupMe a long time ago. He and his family still use it regularly. So, if you’re looking for something, give that a look.
- hungryphrog ( @hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 14•4 months ago
Texting?? I also use this technological innovation called living with your parents.
- deadbeef79000 ( @deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ) 12•4 months ago
Via my spouse.
- Tubulous ( @Tubulous@beehaw.org ) 3•4 months ago
Me too. And SMS since we are on mix of Android and Apple.
- lemmyreader ( @lemmyreader@lemmy.ml ) English12•4 months ago
Signal
- Lolman228 ( @Lolman228@kbin.social ) 10•4 months ago
I call them
- ColdWater ( @ColdWater@lemmy.ca ) 10•4 months ago
What? You don’t use phone as a phone anymore?
lol you are all such boomers. this thread has been hilarious
- SomeoneElse ( @SomeoneElse@lemmy.ca ) 2•4 months ago
I’m a millennial and don’t use Facebook. None of my zoomer family members use Facebook. In fact the only people I know who do use it are boomers.
that’s why I found it so funny. all of these responses could have been taken straight from a Facebook comment section
- absGeekNZ ( @absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz ) English9•4 months ago
Signal groups, works great
- geoma ( @geoma@lemmy.ml ) 8•4 months ago
Signal