Millennials And Gen-Z Are Sharing Their Most “Boomer” Opinions, But They Just Make Sense (35 Answers)

That's what's so great about animals. Your dog doesn't care if he's famous for doing something stupid in a viral video, but your child will hate you forever!

Nobody wants to see that!

Very true. Some people genuinely don't believe something happened if you don't post it and brag about it. I had that situation with people convincing me that I didn't accomplish something just because they didn't see photos on social networks and therefore concluded beyond any doubt that the event never occured. The paper proof was not sufficient.

I will never want any smart kitchen thingys. Basically anything connected to the internet can be taken over by a skilled hacker

I don't think that it's related to one generation. I know very old people, old, middle aged, young, teenagers that only check once or twice a day. And other people from different ages who are always wanting to answer or write immediately. For example, my father and my mother do opposite, and my two sisters, too.

It's such an immature way of thinking to conflate disagree with hate. You see it with preschoolers. You can hate the opinion and still like the person (you can also agree with the opinion and hate the person, but that's a different thing).

As an activist, I can say that social media has changed a lot of things in visibility, meeting people and communication of filmed things that were hidden before. There're also good things.

I consider it acceptable to look stuff on your phone if someone has a question that can be answered with a quick check, but that's IT. No texting, no facebook, no ignoring your dinner companions.

I don't want to listen to my neighbour's screaming kids either, so I turn up de volume.

Those playgrounds are still the norm in Germany, thank God. American parents regularly freak ;)

If you do touch typing, you NEED a physical keyboard.

I'm not a fan of the Beatles (unpopular opinion, but I had to listen and study a lot of their music during my A Levels and my satiation point was reached a long time ago), but I actually miss the days when lyrics really were as innocent as "I wanna hold your hand".

Also, new power adapters with EVERYTHING, without even asking, so all those lovely polluting circuit boards inside end up in landfill!

Why not if you are tired

Exactly. And hosing down a child covered in mud in the garden is not child abuse Dr Phill. I don't have kids, which is probably best.

I follow subs on tiktok that are informational the animal videos and some comedic ones and people that make miniatures some cooking ones that are aged 35-to i think the oldest man I follow is in his 80s. I don't ever see anyone dancing or any of the people that are considered famous

Depends on what you let them do with it. My son has an iPad but it is severely restricted. He can’t get to anything but the bbc bitsize website and only has access to the educational apps. At 6.30 in the evening it locks out until 7am the next day.

Context and intent are everything.

This picture is so funny and the people look so ridiculous.

The generation before boomers said the same thing about telephones because how many teenagers waited around the house waiting for their bf/gf to call.

I generally agree, but it depends on what's standard for your group of friends. For casual get-togethers at my house, my good friends always show up 15 minutes late. That's because they know I'm running around trying to make everything perfect right up to the last minute, and that 15 minutes gives me a chance to sit down and relax for a moment. On the other hand, we invited a couple for dinner a few weeks ago, and they were more than an hour late (with no text, phone call, or apology). I was really annoyed, but they apparently thought it was pretty standard practice. Maybe in their circle of friends it is.

Yes

Then no more gifts period

I think it should be a bit shorter

Unrecognizable is ok. You don't want their faces picked up by creeps and used in videos. And yes, that happens.

My gaming pc is 12 years old and still works fine. I upgraded my iPhone a couple of years ago. Went from a 6 to a XS.

I bloody love my flannels!

"Kids need to play outside more." Society proceeds to make the outside dangerous or illegal to be. "Kids and their stupid phones ..."

Yes! I grew up before channel 5 and usually something to watch, but with 600+ channels of sky TV I'm often stuck because it's all trash or repeats.

Ebooks take up less space though. And they allow me to bring an entire library with me on a bus or train.

I completely disagree. Without ebooks and a night mode setting I had difficulty reading. It's more satisfying to be able to read without having to repeat the same sentence over and over.

I like physical books better too. I tend to be faster and more focused when I read them and my eyes don't hurt.

I do prefer printed books but ebooks take up much less space.

Ebooks have their place, but you cant smell and ebook. Nothing like the smell of and old paper book.

I love paper books, but for someone with myopia, being able to increase the text size and put the book in night mode is really a enormous plus. I was a big reader when I was a child, but read less and less books as my eyesight got worse. Now that I have an ebooks I can enjoy books again. And since vision problems are a common thing among old people, I think preferring paper printed books over ebooks is not really a boomer opinion.

E-books are a godsend for us middle-age & older folks who doesn't alway have their reading glasses with them.

This one pisses me off; I am and will continue to have my digital library; Yes, I do have some things I don`t like about it like not really owning the books I`m buying from amazon but that`s some different thing. I really do love using an e book reader and to me it`s way more comfortable than a book and I couldn`t even imagine carrying all the books I have on my device as real books

I love e-books. As a voracious reader this is one of the aspects of modern tech I can really get on board with. Walking round with a huge library in my pocket is fantastic 🙂

I like reading paper books at home, but I'm not going to take my whole library on a bus trip, thank you very much.

I have hundreds of paper books that I am gradually replacing with e-books. Arthritis and other musculoskeletal maladies can make holding a book impossible.

If they were shaped more like books, they’d be much easier to hold too. I can hold onto a paper book for hours, but can’t read a Kindle for long because they make my hands hurt holding them in such a non-ergonomic way.

Small paperbacks are physically hard to keep open and painful for arthritis... yet I still can't get into e-books either.

I have many, many books and love them to bits, but ebooks are lightweight & readily portable, easy to manipulate even with sore joints, have adjustable fonts, and can be read at night without a lamp.

I love the smell of a bookstore especially a used bookstore. I love flipping through a book before I buy it. I don’t have to worry about charging or access or viruses.

I feel the same way. Unfortunately, a lot of authors whom I have begun to read offer their books ONLY on e-books. So my husband bought me a reader, but not one of those little things. But, except for those authors, everyone else is paper.

my wide was the same until i bought her a kindle

I’d need to travel with an extra car though. Also: reading in the bath, reading in the dark, reading with just one hand…

When home or a location that I plan on spending some time, I love the feel of a real book in my hands. But e-books have a place too, when out and about it’s less weight in my bag and I can read whatever I’m in the mood for.

A book is a book, it’s about the content not the format. The rest is just snobbery.

I just love the feel of paper or hardback books. Digital just does not cut it.