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Over-70s are UK’s most online adults after twentysomethings, survey shows (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 7 months ago by ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 31 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

If the population is that near, theoretically lemmy has some representation of this over-70s group? y'all here?

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 27 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

We ran a census on lemmy.ca recently.

We're still working on the full graphs/summaries/results, but I can confirm that we had responses in that age range :)

Hopefully we should have the results out in a few weeks

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not currently, he's asleep. My dad uses lemmy casually. So does my mom. Mind you, my mom is only in it for the gifs. My dad doesn't comment at all, but he scrolls some music C/s and the occasional cat/cute animal C/. He's actually closer to 80 than 70 tbh.

They never actually used reddit at all, but my dad noticed me checking my usual music C/s, which includes the classic rock one, and we started talking music. He wanted to check things out himself, so I set him up.

My mom just asked if I knew anywhere other than tiktok after I was complaining about how shitty it is, thinking it would be a dunk. She didn't stop using tiktok, but now she's on lemmy too.

[–] Somethingcheezie@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What does the “C/s” stand for

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy uses the c/insert community name format, similar to r/ on reddit.

A C/ is, therefore, a community, and C/s are communities.

[–] Somethingcheezie@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Oh lol. Thanks

[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I bet almost all are just on Whatsapp sending images with Christian quotes to each other.

[–] TawdryPorker@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

UKs 70 year olds are far less likely than their American counterparts to share Christian memes. They share different kinds of reactionary memes suggesting that 'woke' and what they think is hilarious to call 'elf and safety' are the causes of why things are so shit now rather than looking somewhat closer to home.

[–] Patch@feddit.uk 5 points 7 months ago

Minions memes and cartoons about The Wife. That's the stereotype here.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 6 points 7 months ago

That and nude selfies

[–] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

More likely forwarding a mix of funny cat videos, gardening tips, home remedies, and paid-for conspiracy theories to all their friends and family, while convincing themselves that they are successfully doing research.

Don't worry - it's for a good cause of saving the youth from a dystopian future of carbon-neutral transportation and walk/bike-able cities & neighbourhoods. Sigh.

[–] FelipeFelop@discuss.online 7 points 7 months ago

I think the problem with every survey I’ve seen is that it does something like

<20 20-30 30-45 45+

[–] odium@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago

crickets chirping