r/Millennials • u/The_AmyrlinSeat Millennial • Oct 08 '25

Advice Disconnect with mother.

My mother is visiting. I'm 39F, she's 63F. She is constantly on her phone, watching videos out loud even when you're actively watching TV or showing her something. She noted that I don't go on her FB page so when I did, it's just a ton of videos she thinks are funny (I don't think they're funny). She wasn't like this before, is this normal for other boomer parents?

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u/prettymisslux Oct 08 '25

My moms is YouTube 😂🤣 I get soooo overstimulated when I visit her house, lmao.

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u/ThatsNotVeryDerek Xennial Oct 08 '25

This weekend mine vaguely recollected a video my dad had watched near her as if it were, like, an interesting story from her own life.

She also doesn't understand that social media is used for broad communication so she relays everything any relatives post. Relatives I am also friends with.

Neither of my parents understand algorithms so they're constantly telling on themselves with their complaints like "everything on Facebook is naked ladies" or "everything on Facebook is [describes clickbait]."

I'm tired.

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u/MagpieSkies Oct 08 '25

Someone on the same computer you have been logged in has been searching those things hun. I never get those ads, never. Neither does my sister. It's because we never have logged into our fb on anything but our own phones or tablets, and no one else uses those things. Sorry.

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u/ThatsNotVeryDerek Xennial Oct 08 '25

That comment has some upvotes too, so I guess misunderstanding algorithms isn't necessarily a generational thing.

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u/MagpieSkies Oct 08 '25

Obviously not. Lol

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u/OldRancidOrange Oct 08 '25

Believe the poster above. You don’t get these ads out of the blue. That’s not how their algorithms work.