Monitoring our parents' internet lives is going to be a major stressor for our generation. I'm constantly having to tell them to take stuff off their blog. They put their street address on there, their phone numbers, their full names. I tell them not to, and they keep forgetting. I keep asking them to stop referring to me by name on there and they won't. Awhile ago my dad got an email from a troll telling him all kinds of right-wing hate-nonsense and my dad WROTE BACK and the troll never responded and then my dad started posting on the blog being like "would the person who emailed me please write back to me, you have an interesting perspective and I'd like to talk more with you" and I had to write and explain what trolls are and how you don't engage with them, etc.
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Old-school etiquette and values suddenly JAMMED onto the internet---my dad has NEVER used the internet until this moment, so it's like his 1960s brain is suddenly trying to engage with Twitter, and it's hard and confusing, and it makes me sad for him because he's so intellectual and smart and amazing but old-school and wants to engage and talk but he doesn't know any lingo or any of the unspoken rules or anything. Would be so easy for him to get hurt/shocked by the internet and my heart is in my throat!
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Old-school etiquette and values suddenly JAMMED onto the internet---my dad has NEVER used the internet until this moment, so it's like his 1960s brain is suddenly trying to engage with Twitter, and it's hard and confusing, and it makes me sad for him because he's so intellectual and smart and amazing but old-school and wants to engage and talk but he doesn't know any lingo or any of the unspoken rules or anything. Would be so easy for him to get hurt/shocked by the internet and my heart is in my throat!
One time he emailed to ask me what "MILF" meant
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That's what the internet does to people though!!!!!!!!!!!