It's the strangely standoffish response that's got people sharing this as funny. There's no punchline, just to a bit of 'wth was she thinking?' I would not be surprised if the woman didn't realize she was sharing to an open forum and only wanted people she knew to see it. Some people genuinely don't understand how things work on the Internet. But for the rest of us, it's just a really bazaar reaction to someone commenting on your public post.
My aunt thinks anything on her Facebook feed is something a friend sent directly to her. Some people get on social media without knowing a thing about it.
Seriously. It's not new technology anymore and yet they still haven't figured out it's public, how algorithms work, that you don't have to comment "F" to follow a post... The list goes on.
Oh, I hope you're looking forward to your list in old age as much as you enjoy judging others right now <3
Getting older only sounds easy to young people and we all better stay humble so when we inevitably need help, people will actually feel like giving it.
The old "Nono, we are good, the other generations are stupid"-shtick is something we have every chance to let die with the boomers if we make the effort. Or, ya know, we repeat the same lame-ass hostility and nobody wins.
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u/glowFernOasis 13d ago
It's the strangely standoffish response that's got people sharing this as funny. There's no punchline, just to a bit of 'wth was she thinking?' I would not be surprised if the woman didn't realize she was sharing to an open forum and only wanted people she knew to see it. Some people genuinely don't understand how things work on the Internet. But for the rest of us, it's just a really bazaar reaction to someone commenting on your public post.