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

You’ll have people falling over themselves to call you offensive OP, but you’re dead right. My mum and aunt both got into video calls in a big way during lockdown and now my mum will always video call when she’s home. If I call her she switches to video! I don’t mind at all but I do find it funny when she calls while making a cup of tea and sets the phone up on the counter, all I can see is a cloud of steam and a close up of the teabag tin.

'So what are we calling them now?'

People !

I’m a boomer and I do both depending on what my dc want.
My ds calls us, mainly voice calls.
Dd loves a video call with dgc.

Me, I’d love some peace!

Me too! Or people who spend all their life in the car...

I don't like video calls, unless I need to see something else i.e not just the person's face. Useful at work for 'i'm on site and this thing doesn't fit, do you have any thoughts' type things, but not for a 'just calling to see what you are up to at the weekend'

See also people who want to schedule a fucking zoom call for even the smallest thing, presumably to make them look busy in their diary when they could just pick up the real life telephone and phone you for the 5 minutes it takes to ask the question, or e-mail it if it's a one hit. A lot of the time they ask the question and you have to go away and find the answer anyway. This is definitely 'a thing' since lockdown that never really happened before unless there were multiple parties involved.

Perhaps you don't really need a term to cover a whole generation.

The boomers in my family absolutely discovered video calling in lockdown and I am so glad they did! Best thing to come out of the pandemic for us 🙂❤️

🤣 Strange conclusion.

I presume most people use whatever is most convenient for them or at the time. I always used to text but I got used to sending voice notes when I broke my wrist. I phone when I look a state, don’t want someone to know where I am, haven’t tidied my house or want to rush around doing stuff, I video chat when I have more time or want to see people or show them something etc.

DD is 7 and bloody loves a video call 🤣

I’m Gen x. We don’t even answer calls!

I mean, you've used the title 'Boomers and their video calling obsession'. It says a lot about you. None of it nice. Especially your patronising attitude towards that particular generation of people.

Has anyone noticed how people walk around with their faces stuck on their phones? Must be a millennial thing.

Not sure whether you're being serious

But your assertion isn't even true.

Oh okay. Thanks for explaining voice notes, people.

NB I don't like boomer, either, btw. It is a loaded term, imo.

I thought boomers were just supposed to sit at home waiting to die thinking about what bad parents they were and not initiating any sort of contact with their children, particularly their sons. Unless the babysitting alarm goes off-then they have to spring into action.

Nope not at all my experience. Gen z and millennia video call (Genz don't seem to get how to answer a phone) or message. Boomers use their phone or text.
I have 2 dad's both boomers and dh and sister is last year of boomer. Many aunts uncles friends in this generation can count on 1 hand how many have ever video called.

It’s very sad, I also think it’s why there are so many mental health issues.

I think it’s affecting all generations now. Not so much boomers - they can still hold conversations!

I think the op is being lighthearted though.

Sounds like shit. Wtf is the point of that?

Re video calls, the people who I see out and about doing this in public, on trains, in shops (whyyyyy? None of us around you need to see/hear this at volume) are all younger.

I did try to video call my pensioner mum during lockdown but she just kept putting her phone up to her ear so it was a disaster.

Voice notes are so much more inconvenient for everyone - who wants to send a 2 minute crackly voice note with a load of traffic noise/wind noise in the background, which the person receiving it will have to find a quiet place to listen to, when they could just send a quick text the other person can glance at?

I assumed the only reason you’d send one was if there were major barriers (language, literacy, disability) to sending a normal text.

Sweeping and lazy generalisation.

I blame tik tok for all this Boomer nonsense I mean categorising people my "age group" is so Immature it could only come from tiktok.

Hmm. As a gen x, I could make all sorts of silly generalisations about millennials, but
I'm old and wise enough to know that such generalisations are absurd.

FWIW, I don't really l know any boomers who are particularly fond of video calls. People of all ages use Teams/Zoom for work in my experience. The only people I know who regularly do video calls outside of work are dd and her boyfriend, both gen z.

JFC just noticed OP is a voice notes fan....bloody hate that. Need to listen to them several times rather than just reading a message. Just so bloody irritating.

I'm sorry you are so triggered

I just delete them. I have had 1 that I did listen to the person lived abroad and there was time difference, the rest get binned.