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Losing Relatives to Fox News

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The Structure of Social Media Aliens Older Americans

The way that media functions alienates people with a fairly high turnover at this point. We just forget that older people are coming to Facebook without a lot of the knowledge that we have. It's just people are not spelling these things out for them. The second reason why it feels like so many millennials are losing their older relatives to Facebook and Fox News is basically the structure of social media. All of the vulnerabilities, all of the deficits that appear in older Americans as they age are deliberately exacerbated by fucking Facebook.

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