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Not only is FB used to connect with family, friends, it is used broadly for businesses, and also for political views.
Yes, the bolded is particularly true.
I've noticed businesses have widely been incorporating FB into their marketing and advertising plan in recent years. I've seen businesses display something like "Like us on Facebook, and get a discount on your next purchase". Then, people see their family & friends like these businesses, so it works kind of like free advertising for the business, since they might be more inclined to patronize a place their family or friend says they like.
I personally don't have profiles posted on any social media outlets, so I don't really have skin in that game, anyway.
It depends on what we are talking about as "senior" here.
I am a couple of months shy of 52. I sent Internet emails as far back as 1985 and after graduating college in 1989 used computers extensively too. But I went to a college that was very "techy", I was one of the early "computer science" majors there, and this college had in a crude, internal "early adopter" kind of way many tech things that people take for granted today like online interactive gaming and even forums much like this, something that was mostly not true outside of the academic and military environments at that time. I often joke so ahead of the curve on all this that I was really meant to be born 20-30 years later, and truth be told, most people into this stuff at that time were "nerds" (yes, I pretty much was, I admit it ) and 20s and younger.
Since "senior" dating sites usually define it as 50 and up, if you are talking about people in their 50s, you are correct as I can say what you say of most if not all of my peers. Once you start getting north of 60, and certainly 65 (the more common definition of "senior"), which I thought this thread was more about, then I don't think it's so erroneous. I'm not saying that anyone over that age is a complete technophobe (my 75 year old mother and her 80 year old brother certainly are not), but I don't think it was so "ubiquetous" for them until recently.
I am 72. I used computers in my work quite extensively until I retired as did my DH. We have had personal computing in one form or another in our home since the late 1980s. I’ve participated in several online forums through the years.
If someone around my age worked they probably used a computer. Certainly 60 year olds, would likely be computer literate. My parents’ generation—not so much. People who have lived into their nineties are probably not used to using computers or personal electronics. Some who have lived into their eighties, possibly. And there are exceptions to everything!
I've noticed businesses have widely been incorporating FB into their marketing and advertising plan in recent years. I've seen businesses display something like "Like us on Facebook, and get a discount on your next purchase". Then, people see their family & friends like these businesses, so it works kind of like free advertising for the business, since they might be more inclined to patronize a place their family or friend says they like.
I personally don't have profiles posted on any social media outlets, so I don't really have skin in that game, anyway.
Yes I agree, doing business on FB is the way to connect these days, most assuredly. At least until another platform is constructed. Or the FB monopoly is split up.
I only mentioned it as an aside to why I would leave FB. But since you asked. The issue i mentioned is huge, and very widespread. It has to do with free speech, and being able to air opposing viewpoints. Not only is FB used to connect with family, friends, it is used broadly for businesses, and also for political views. The following link will explain it more thoroughly. If you haven't heard of this yet, you will. There is a lot about it out there, you just have to look for it. Conservative content is being suppressed. They are picking winners, and losers, and there is a big uproar about it.
That's funny. I recall going to a friend's mothers funeral about 15 years ago, and two older women were hitting on the widower in the funeral parlor. It's like he was just baked bread at the bakery.
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above, when i posted YES, i remembered my father-in-law.
my MIL died first, and "the word" spread quickly that my FIL was "single".
he had no need of any help at all. it was/is a Gold Rush.
so...yes...it is "different". i became aware of HOW different in 2017.
I am not so sure on how many young people find a match with on-line dating. I read an article in the Atlantic recently that had some pretty bad numbers, something like 1 out of 300 contacts made in the dating app actually end up being a date.
We've all had those dates that are 5-10 years older than their profile.
Never understood that one. Bad way to start a relationship and when they tell me it's strike 3 automatically.
Or the photos are 5-10 years old. Even worse.
Opps, she forgot to mention she's gained 50lbs.
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) and 20s and younger.
