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[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Never hand a boomer your phone. Especially an elderly boomer, and especially if that boomer is your mother. They will always start swiping. It's like their brain just deflates. Their eyes glaze over. They get this wide, tranquil smile, as if to say, "Hot dawwg! This boundless collection of photos I've been handed is going to be a real treat!", and they just start swiping. They just start fucking swiping.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I love that my gallery app has a "guest view". I can select some photos, tap "guest view" and hand someone my phone. They can then only swipe across these photos, and if they try to leave the app the lock screen comes up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

What app is that and does it exist on android?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago

Ente Photos, it's on both Android and iOS

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just make every second image in your phone this GIF:

Get some Operant Conditioning in them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

Christmas Morning thanks you for this so very very much.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My boomer mother swiped too far on her own phone when she was showing me something

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Oh god no! Please...tell me it's not what I think it is...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

The chronicles of daddick?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

The gaping maw.... of maw.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

As a boomer fully versed in modern phone usage I resent this unwarranted collective slur.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I apologize for any offense I may have caused, but I believe your presence here is no coincidence. You have to be the messenger. Please pass it along to the others via email chain letter, or perhaps more effectively, state that Mark Zuckerberg has changed the rules of Facebook and requires all users to automatically swipe when handed people's phones. That should be effective in getting Aunt Joyce to do the exact opposite.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pass it on yourself, I haven't used FB in at least 10 years. I'm guessing you don't eat avocado toast either. Stereotypes are stupid aren't they.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

Stereotypes are stupid, but also I believe that the user you're replying to is being facetious and already making fun of the stereotypes.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just zoom in a little so it pans

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Then they zoom out and start swiping. Just turn on Guided Access mode on iOS or Screen Pinning or App Pinning on Android. In those modes you can disable touch.