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

Boomer.

Whatsapp or nothing.

Don't email me, I won't read that.

MIL ALWAYS video calls. Because she has time to sit and chat. I don’t. If she phones I need to stack the dishwasher/load the washer, supervise DC at the same time. Which is rude really even though I’m doing my best to give her my full attention, really I am.

I'm a baby boomer in a wide circle of friends and family who are of a similar age.
I've never had a video call with any of them. I had to google 'video call'.

I'm a millennial btw

No shit!!!

I’ve given up knowing what a boomer/gen-x/gen-z/millennial is I’m afraid. I literally don’t know who is who (or largely care). Sorry, not the answer you were looking for.

My various "boomer" (terrible term) relatives hate videocalling, and avoid it like the plague. They much prefer using the landline.

Just a thought, given not a lot of other people experience this...if your seniors at work are constantly wanting to video call you, it may well be a sign they don't trust you to work if you're not under their nose, and want to check you're where you say you are. Perhaps they think you're underperforming.

If you are 59 I am sorry to say you are one of us an Xer.

Geez no-one said that either, it’s just a term for a particular generation, it’s not derogatory. Funny getting this vibe from ‘boomers’ considering the never ending ‘millennial snowflake’ chat.

Boomer is a derogatory term. Millennial is not. Snowflake is derogatory.

Ok baby boomer

Oh do give over. You’ve been told numerous times how insulting and rude it is but you just keep on going.

Gosh no, quite the opposite I'd say. Younger people are more likely to communicate via video call / voice notes (I hate both of these). Older people more likely to simply pick up the phone and call or come to see you face to face. I'm a millennial and I like written messages - texts, emails, DMs. None of my friends of my age send voice notes, thank god.

Baby boomer seems to be the acceptable term. Just curious that baby boomers consider their generational name insulting but other generational names aren’t.

No. Baby boomer is not insulting, but boomer is. Their generational name isn’t insulting.

Well except for growing up in the shhadowof nuclear war, Chernobyl, the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the recession of the 1990s, 2 gulf wars and 9/11- no drama at all.

As a member of that generation, I don’t find either insulting.

No not at all. The boomers I know can barely work technology! (Obviously this doesn't apply to all of them!).

My DH is gen x and AIWAYS wants to bloody video call when making a call to chat relatives/friends. I'd rather not have to show my face and find the holding of the device in a specific way annoying. I am the same age but would much rather text! Not a fan of phone calls and I usually don't answer if people phone me. I definitely don't answer if it's an unknown number. If I have to do a long call I'll just phone rather than video and put my headphones in so I don't have to hold anything.

I love the idea of your mum getting all ready and presentable to go on a video call with her grand-DC. That’s brilliant.

For there to be “victim blaming”, there needs to be a victim.

Can people please stop shortening the generation name “GenerationX” to “GenX”. It is very upsetting.

So your sample of people who do this is 3, maybe 4?

The main reason I do it is because I am mostly deaf and I have to read people's lips instead of trying to make out their fucking mumbling on a phone call or incoherent rambling in some text.

I’m Gen X and a lot of my friends are Boomers. I can hand on heart say I’ve never had a non work video call in my entire life.

Tbh the only person I really know who enjoys phone calls is my 80 year old mum - my circle are strictly WhatsApp communicators.

Snap! Why on earth do posters try to take something and expand it to include almost of a group? I have in my long life taken 1 'selfie', of my wrist after a break, I use Whatsapp and that's all, no Farcebook, Twatter, Infantagram etc etc.

I've only ever participated in video calls twice in my life. I'm a boomer, the callers were gen X. I have no intention of ever making a video call.

You are spouting nonsense.