Boomers and their video calling obsession?

[Finlesswonder]

Anyone else noticed this? Work and family members, if they're a boomer then 9 times out of 10 they try to video call you. I think they discovered this during lockdown and have now become obsessed
I'm a millennial btw

Oh " I hear you" my most hated phrase used incessantly by my millenial sister. As far as I can tell it means:
" I don't want to take on board what you are telling me,"
" I disagree but am saying this meaningless phrase rather than putting together a reasoned argument"
" I consider this subject closed".

It's not my experience - my kids (just about in their 30's now) are the ones that started and continue to video call me and pretty regularly too - and I'm pretty happy about that. One is often travelling around the world and the other has a daughter that I like to see. I don't video call anyone else bar my sister who lives in another country in Europe.

Oh Christ yes, or fucking speaker phone. Essentially my family like to call me, talk over each other for an hour, then suddenly hang up because they need to call my sister to do the same. I don’t know what they’ve been up to, they don’t know what I’ve been up to, but sometimes the kids quite enjoy it 😂

Boomer here, never once done this

I'm a year off the Boomer generation and I did do a lot of video calls during lockdown.....with the undertakers. It was the only way I could see what coffin my mum would be in ,and to be able to view mum's body at the funeral home. In case it escaped you OP many of us were reliant on video calls just to have some sort of sanity, so you can take your judgemental, ageist bollocks and shove it up your arse.

I get that about your son.
but you said ‘there can’t be that many people that age calling you so can’t be much of a problem?’ Presumably her parents are boomers as are many of ours on here? I.e one or two of the main people who are going to be calling you? Don’t understand your comment

Lol! My Gen z son is always complaining that his friends ( all 15/16) keep phoning him to talk instead of texting. I say maybe they just want to chat and he says 'Why? They can just text me what they want! Maybe the younguns are going back to phoning and the oldies are on the video's. My MIL loves a zoom, but she lives miles away, and she can see the kids.

Boomer is literally the name of the generation, like Millennial… which is also used in negative ways, as is GenZ. Never GenX… how do they always escape 🤣

This does tally with my personal experience (but that’s confined to my family).

Having seen years of older people moaning about millennials this, millennials that (including large sections of the press), this new, widespread whining about the use of the word “boomers” is quite something.

Gen x here. Boomer ILs obsessed with video calls. I decline the calls and will call back with just audio.

As people have said, this is nonsense to stereotype like this. I am a boomer and I hate video calls (except Zoom calls for work, when I am prepared for them). My millennial DD is always making unexpected video calls to me as is my millennial brother. I hate them and sometimes don't answer, whereas I always would if they just phoned me. DH, who is Gen X, never video calls me as he knows I hate it, but always does to his (boomer) sisters, who are fine with it.

I find this too. My mum always wants to turn on the video. I don't want to be holding the phone up and looking at her, I'd rather stick the earphones on and get on with doing something else while I talk to her.

I just say no.

The term is 'Baby Boomer' because we were conceived and born in a literal baby boom after the war - returning soldiers and increased standard of living etc. 'Boomer' on its own is always used in a patronising and derogatory way.

I'm OK being called a boomer, it's just a cultural description. Just not being stereotyped.

PS boomers are up to 1964 so not just post-war. My parents were both born right in the middle of the war themselves.

The poster said ‘ why is it a problem to you- there can’t be many people calling you of that age’ my point was that her parents are that age and they will probably call a lot- that’s why it’s a problem because it her parents, who video call I would imagine frequently!!

I have never done that. This is just another generalisation - 'boomers are always saying this'. Not everyone does.

I thought she was getting the calls at work. Are there that many older people calling her at work?

My friends and family whether over 60, gen x, millennial or whatever my teenage grandchildren are all use WhatsApp, never video calls.

Boomer here, by birth if not by inclination... I loathe video calls for many reasons but a big one is I've usually emerged from my pillow and am incapable of stringing two words together, also hate looking at face in the corner or the ceiling. Intrusive; much prefer WhatsApp or messenger but I'm an introvert so maybe this is par for the course....

Many posters aren't quite so much triggered > why is it some generations are obsessed by this word?< as you say but rather, finding your insistence on saying we're triggered and lack of engagement in the discussion you have started, a little goady

Let me guess, you clog up threads with “not all men” too?

So not boomers, just some people you know.

OK....

So goady I have reported that post.