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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
RULES:
- Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
- Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
- You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
- Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
- Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
- Absolutely no NSFL content.
- Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
- No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.
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Facebook especially forgot that old people who feel confused by something just ignore it...
It's a normal part of aging, we try to hide the mental decline from ourselves, so if we're not able to do something we enjoy, we just stop doing it without even really realizing it.
Some will conciously quit like this old lady, but loads more will just stop checking the app/website without even really noticing they stopped. When they think about using it, their subconscious will convince them not to just to avoid the frustration.
Especially for this age group who were almost 60 when they started using the Internet. They never really had a firm grasp on it, and everyday more and more won't be able to keep up with it
That was why Faux News was so successful. It required zero effort. People would turn it on when they woke up and let it play all day.
Modern internet propaganda hinges on the target being addicted and incapable of stopping themselves for that level of coverage. But they're gonna lose their oldest and most reliable voting demographic