Telegram mostly. We have multiple Telegram groups for family
You feel like you can’t disconnect from these things, but you can. Group text plus family learn quickly that you’re outside of social media. They learn to deliberately send photos or call and if your spouse is more social, they become the conduit for “news” and it’s filtered down to you when important
Email
I don’t. I’m estranged from my family for several reasons including that I’m trans, gay, in a different city, and a pain in the ass to get ahold of.
When we talk it’s via text
a phone number
whatsapp for family, because that’s where family is.
nobody uses facebook to connect with family, they use facebook to connect with people from high school they haven’t seen in 15 years and don’t care enough about to actually keep in touch.
I don’t. I’m estranged from most of my family because I refuse to use Facebook.
Texting. My parents and sister in law keep me in the loop of what’s going on with everyone else. I’ve never had a Facebook and they all know how to get in touch with me if they want to. Half of them won’t even talk to the other half due to drama people started on Facebook anyway and that was years before all the Trump shit started. Social media is the worst thing that ever happened to society.
They can contact me using those neat little messages that you can send with PayPal transactions
LINE? Signal? Text?
Signal for a very few, and everybody else I don’t keep up with.
Only hearing from family when they deem it important enough to pick up a phone and call or text me directly is one of the benefits of not having social media presence with non any anonymous accounts for me.
Signal, texting, emails. I’ve never been on Facebook, and never will be. I prefer to not be spied upon by evil billionaires.
Text messages and phone calls. I don’t need to see my boomer relatives racist posts.
I’m the opposite. I don’t need to see my Gen Z relatives desperate pleas for attention.
My boomer relatives are relatively liberal and don’t feel the need to share more than the vacation they’re on, the cocktail they’re drinking, or their high score on candy crush.
Seriously, every time I see stuff like this, I just wonder if people have completely forgotten that you can text and call your family and friends.
That was disappointing, when you grow up thinking your parents are progressive and then as old age and its symptoms happen their guards drop and you find out that they always had some racist tendencies. I guess credit to them suppressing them for so long.
i really must be lucky because my mum and dad are as liberal and accepting as can be. i guess i was just lucky to grow up in massachusetts and attend a pretty liberal methodist church. my pastor growing up even hand wrote me a letter when i came out as trans and apologised for how some of the church needs to change.
How close did you grow up to Boston, or did your parents live in a city for a period of time? The closer you get to a city, the more liberal the population becomes, and there are some pretty backwoods areas of Massachusetts. My dad was conservative until he went to Boston College and worked at the bank collecting loans from the poorer sections of the city. Even Cape Cod had MAGA protesters yelling at the Bourne Bridge about the plan to house immigrants on the Air Force base for all 4 years of Trump’s reign of terror, and I could probably still find the Trump 2016 flag that I used to drive by all the time.
i was always outside of worcester actually so i only got to go into boston occasionally i grew up in grafton, northbridge, and millbury and went to church in shrewsbury. :)
That’s pretty similar to me, though I grew up just over the bridges on the Cape. I always thought we were in a super liberal area being in Massachusetts (plus we were like halfway between P-Town and Boston), but as I got older, I was shocked by just how conservative it is there. It’s like a bastion of snowbirds’ summer homes and retirees who all care more about their property taxes than the kids who live there.
I am originally from the south but my mother joined the Air Force and we moved away after she divorced my dad when I was very young. I’m so glad that I was able to experience life outside of that racist bubble. I’m not sure how I would have turned out had I grown up there.
Same with me. It’s weird, during the end of the Mayan calendar my grandparents asked my dad to leave his wife and two kids to go into their bunker to prepare to fight off the minorities that all follow the Antichrist during the end times. The reason we were not invited to their crusade was my mom voted Democrat, and Jesus would not give souls to children who would live to see the end times as that would be to cruel for their god. He told them hell no. And it was weeks before they resurfaced again and pretended nothing ever happened. Could i have been conditioned thus if my dad don’t join the NAVY? Scary thought.
In my parents’ old age they’ve gotten more progressive. I reject the notion that people naturally trend towards conservativism as they age… I just think there are a fuckton of entitled “I got mine” boomers.
I recently read an article that claims people become more progressive as they age, but society becomes more progressive faster, so it just seems like they become conservative.
i think it was just the case in the past because people tended to have more means and affluency as they grew up in the 70s and 80s, so they naturally gravitated toward people like eisenhower and reagan.
Yep. I saw a fairly recent study talking about this. The short of it is that they found no correlation between age and political leaning for ANY generation, but a strong correlation between political leaning and wealth.
As people begin to benefit more from the system, the more they support pulling the ladder up behind them.
The correlation to age here is that it gets harder to adapt to new information the older we get, so people are more likely to double down rather than change their perspective as society gets more progressive and inclusive. The best weapon against racism is experiences that put people in situations to meet people with different life experiences than them. Get them outside their little white suburban bubbles. This is why conservatives hate college so much. It’s often the first time kids are put in a situation where they’re both out from under the thumb of their parents and exposed to kids who grew up in different circumstances than their’s.
This certainly has the ring of truthiness to it.
I’d live to read this study if you can find it
It was just an article I saw while randomly browsing, I wouldn’t know where to look.
We just didn’t see it in the past because we were all kinda racist. But we grew out of it.
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