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1 posted on 09/05/2025 8:38:20 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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Survey finds the only people watching television news are in nursing homes and rehabs.


2 posted on 09/05/2025 8:41:32 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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Recreational Use...?
.
The last Year has been
History before our Eyes!


3 posted on 09/05/2025 8:42:27 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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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 :)


4 posted on 09/05/2025 8:55:01 AM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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I guess they’re just now catching up with the younger generations.


5 posted on 09/05/2025 8:55:48 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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What else should they be doing?

Smoking pot?


6 posted on 09/05/2025 9:03:10 AM PDT by MikeHu
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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!!!!!


7 posted on 09/05/2025 9:03:46 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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They’re clearly addicted to Facebook. It’s become the cringiest of the cringe.


9 posted on 09/05/2025 9:08:20 AM PDT by EvelynMcHale (vroom, vroom, mothertrucker)
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This thread is making me laugh. For some reason.


12 posted on 09/05/2025 9:11:16 AM PDT by dforest
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I absolutely HATE trying to watch any video on my smartphone. I much prefer my computer, Internet, and streaming box, displayed on a 54 inch monitor, plus headphones so I don't disturb the upstairs neighbors. Gigs are few and far between, and I can't stand the senior center crowd.

The only thing I do on my smartphone is play BeJeweled, and only in medical waiting rooms before a visit or blood draw.

13 posted on 09/05/2025 9:18:11 AM PDT by asinclair (Indict DNC for RICO?)
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They're trying to take something away from us Boomers again. We were drooling Internet addicts before being drooling internet addicts was cool!! Dang kids.
15 posted on 09/05/2025 9:21:49 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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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.


17 posted on 09/05/2025 9:27:51 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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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!


20 posted on 09/05/2025 9:46:28 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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“Survey finds ‘digital addiction’ soaring among Baby Boomers”

Obviously, this doesn’t apply to anyone on THIS site. /s


21 posted on 09/05/2025 9:47:50 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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People actually get upset that I don’t carry my phone around with me...I refuse to be at everybody’s beck and call.


22 posted on 09/05/2025 9:51:07 AM PDT by cherry
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“Dare to be Stupid!”
Weird Als’ video should be
Inserted Here!
(^)


23 posted on 09/05/2025 10:22:37 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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I’m 78. I hate my iPhone. I use it for calls and the occasional text to reorder my scripts. That’s it. The rest of the time it sits on the table. At my doctor appointments, I like to look around the waiting room to see how many people are on their phones, ignoring the person who accompanied them, and ignoring their children.


28 posted on 09/05/2025 10:43:01 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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My kids are 2 different generations, late millennial and gen-z.

My millennial is glued to his phone and my gen-z makes fun of him. Gen-z don’t appear to be nearly as stuck on their phones as their predecessors. My younger son doesn’t do Facebook, instagram, any of it. Just texts his friends sometimes, but prefers to hang out in person. Makes sense considering he is the generation that was “locked down” during Covid. He prefers face to face interaction.

I’m hoping this is a shift.


37 posted on 09/05/2025 12:04:14 PM PDT by LilFarmer (Isaiah 54:17)
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Does reading on a Kindle count as screen time? If so, I’m up to several hours a day when I include FR.

As for cell phones, mine spends about 99% of the time turned off in a drawer. I don’t carry it unless I know I’ll have to make or receive calls. No apps for anything.


38 posted on 09/05/2025 12:09:52 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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digital addiction?

I love my fingers and toes - can’t live without them?


39 posted on 09/05/2025 12:10:45 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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I was going to call BS on this story until I realized I spend 6 hours a day on FR.

I embrace my FR demons.


43 posted on 09/05/2025 12:50:59 PM PDT by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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