Posted on 09/05/2025 8:38:20 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A new survey suggests many Baby Boomers are struggling with digital overuse, with nearly half spending more than three hours a day on their smartphones and a significant number experiencing anxiety when disconnected.
The poll, conducted by AddictionResource.net, surveyed 2,000 adults ages 59 to 77 about their digital habits and found signs of emotional dependence, compulsive behavior and difficulty reducing screen time.
Experts say adults who spend more than six hours a day on screens are at increased risk of depression. While screen addiction is not defined by time alone, experts recommend recreational use stay below two hours daily.
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Survey finds the only people watching television news are in nursing homes and rehabs.
Recreational Use...?
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The last Year has been
History before our Eyes!
Boomers? Seriously? Walk in to any restaurant and look whose digitally disconnected from each other...it ain’t the Boomers. I cringe when I see a family sitting at a table in a restaurant and both parents and the children area all hunched over on their phones scrolling endlessly...at least Boomers are speaking to each other, albeit loudly as they not hear as well as they used to :)
I guess they’re just now catching up with the younger generations.
What else should they be doing?
Smoking pot?
I can quit anytime i want!!!!!!!!!! and i don’t want to!!!!!!! but i could !!!!!!!
And besides, quitting is for quitters, and I’m no quitter!!!!!
That, and playing video games.
They’re clearly addicted to Facebook. It’s become the cringiest of the cringe.
Believe me, those TVs are on in nursing homes but few watch. It puts them to sleep.
They want to demonize old folks and make them look like they are addicted because many old folks post too conservative.
So lets make it an addiction or illness.
My survey says: Strew them!
Boomers do that too. LOL
This thread is making me laugh. For some reason.
The only thing I do on my smartphone is play BeJeweled, and only in medical waiting rooms before a visit or blood draw.
Exactly...
Or that 5yr old in the shopping cart glued to a Screen while Mom’s on the phone.
I’ll do whatever the hell I want...I’m a boomer!
Today, I saw a young woman texting on her phone as she was riding down the street on a bicycle. Hopelessly addicted, I’d say.
I think the great divide in this and every other contemporary society is the computer usage among the baby boom generation. That is the difference between being connected — and being “out of it.” I think the great danger is among the young — while for those transitioning into their senior (retirement) years, the computer is a major enabling technology. The greater danger is the old media of passive consumption of television and print — where a few demagogues do all the thinking and talking for everyone.
The Free Republic is a good example of modern participation in the collective dialogues — to whatever extent one is capable of. Of course a few abuse and misuse it — like with any activity, but there is this tendency to throw the baby out with the bath water — while discouraging people from discriminating the difference. When people are incapable of making any “discriminations” for themselves, then they are at the mercy of all the demagogues willing to do all their thinking for them — and telling them exactly and only what to chant and repeat endlessly.
So it is like every good thing — that can become a bad thing — but the worse is not being aware of what in the world is going on. Then one is easily convinced by the media that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris (and Tim Walz) are the smartest people running circles around everybody else — and there is nothing beyond.
I believe that so it is bad for the Democratic Party and Trump took advantage of it because he was able to campaign using alternative media (TikTok, X).
Would people in the “good old days” waste their time on computers and smart phones, if they had them?
You’re darn tootin! You betcha!
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