Oddbean new post about login | logout @7d199f28 a "boomer trap"? Please explain what that means.
@0beb7a0c it's a little tongue-in-cheek millennial joke - many of us receive on a weekly basis requests of help from older relatives and friends who clicked on some random links and ended up with bots taking over their accounts.
@7d199f28 is there something special about "older" people that render jokes about their purported stereotypical ignorance to be tasteful? Are there any other social groups this applies to? Just trying to keep up with the changing social conventions...I'm a little dim-witted since my days of coding assembly language while developing operating systems are long past.
@0beb7a0c I guess that all jokes stop being fun once you over-analyze them, but for the sake of not being depicted as a fosterer of stereotypes and ignorant jokes I'll give it another try. 1. Younger millennial/gen Z folks who work in IT often make fun of their parents/uncles/grandparents who regularly beg for help to recover their Facebook account taken over by bots, often after clicking on a random link in an unsolicited conversation with a stranger. 2. Younger millennial/gen Z folks who work in IT eventually fall into the exact same trap after clicking on a random link shared on LinkedIn by a stranger who claims to be a recruiter at Facebook.