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[–] LePoisson@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

Idk what the hell happened to baby boomers. When I was growing up my parents (boomers) constantly reminded me you can't believe everything you read online and that the "girl" I was chatting with on AIM could actually be some fat 40 year old pedo.

That wasn't uncommon, that was the same experience all my buddies had and same thing was drilled into us at school.

Now, I'm seeing these folks treat memes on Facebook like it's the gospel truth. Or some random mommy blog post with zero references as straight facts. It's so maddening ... What happened to these people?