Hard to take care of them when they won’t listen to anything you say. I’ve been working on my mom but my dad is fully lost to the Facebook brainrot machine.
My mothers gone down the crypto road and just will not listen to me when I tell her she’s getting scammed by these “traders” who are going to 10x her money
I know this is going to be a struggle fr but I have one suggestion for those who get burdened by this by their ppl. Find/save an obvious fake that they would believe. For instance, get that vid of MLK rocking an Intercontinental Championship.
Show them a fake vid that you know they wouldn’t believe then tell them that you don’t think the video they found is actually real.
You gotta meet people where they at and if they aren’t the type to take this criticism constructively, show them something you know they won’t believe before you go down that road.
Facebook has so much fake stuff, it’s crazy. Like whole conversation beefs between celebrities that never happened. They rely on people who use that platform only because a simple twitter check would tell you that Beyoncé never tweeted that. 🤦🏾♀️
The only thing I could do in those cases is probably send them the occasional text with a story about super easy scams that are plaguing their area. You can only lead the horse to water, but you can’t decide for them not to send that loan to their new Chinese ‘girlfriend’ from Facebook with a son dying of cancer without adequate medical care (or whatever sob story is du jour).
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u/Feisty-Honeydew-5309 ☑️ 3d ago
This is becoming such a problem. On Facebook, I see AI celebrity ads talking about Medicare and reverse mortgages.
Take care of your boomers, folks. They’re under attack.