Mildly Infuriating

Notifications etc I can understand if you don’t know how to use tech properly.

What I don’t understand is how every older person seems to have loud speakerphone conversations in public. They had landlines most of their lives so why do this?

Don't try to hang Android phones on boomers. Boomers are dipshits with tech and iphones are designed for toddlers. Majority of boomers use iPhones.

I suspect that a large part of the problem is a combination of hearing loss and a lack of subconscious awareness of their phone. In both cases (and especially combined), they would likely not even hear the notification if it was at a volume you or I would consider reasonable. So, from their perspective, it is quiet. Any quieter and it would be too quiet to notice.

Of course, anyone capable of basic empathy would also realise that such a perspective is their subjective experience of the world and simply turn the volume off/down until later to avoid annoying other people. Sadly, many of their ilk seem to have forgotten the lessons they taught us as kids.

Forgot about that until visiting family in Florida. Phones and medical devices beeping everywhere

There are rare cases where full volume is necessary, but definitely not for the vast majority of people. For example, my phone is set to about 50% ringer volume, but I'm also on-call for work sometimes and I have that phone constantly set to 100% so I know that I'll hear it in any circumstance. It also only goes off once every couple of months or so and not constantly.

I don't know if this is just boomers. I remember a person my age in Uni some years ago who just sat there with her freaking iPhone not silent, end every few minutes a message came with a loud "DING!"

Yea I honestly have seen a huge uptick of it in the last few months. Like why the fuck are you setting your email notification to machine gun volleys or fucking crowd cheers.

I dont read before responding because what someone else says is irrelevant to me.

Keep shovelin

My mom is 75. She knows nothing about how cell phones work. She thinks to charge your phone you need to turn the phone off first.

She doesn't understand that airplane mode turns off your voice and data radios.

She holds the phone like a star trek communicator, NOT on speaker, and then complains she can barely hear you.

I think the boomers brains are just mush.

Edit: forgot to mention she turns the airplane mode ON and then turns the whole phone OFF. Once it's off, that's when she plugs it in.

Then she complains that turning her phone on always takes a while. My brother in law installed an app that just turns airplane mode off upon boot. That "taking a while" is the radios turning back on.

Otherwise, she used to call him from her landline (yeah) weekly to say her phone was broken. Everhtime it was just still in airplane mode. She does what she wants, doesn't understand any of it, and you can't explain it or talk her out of doing it her way.

......and people on this site were trying to convince me to teach her linux. Hell I don't even know what I'm doing on linux. That would be like the blind leading the stubborn.

My mom tried to watch Chinese drama shows on public transport. I told her to stop it before some pissed off hillbilly use violence (for context: at the time, there were some news reports of people getting shot for blasting loud music from their car)

Ha ha ha, generalizations are fun and hateful.

I know boomers do it but I also see every generation do it. I know boomers do it because it's a accessibility reasons due to age and poor hearing and the phone will not get loud enough for them to actually hear it without speakerphone.

I fucking hate it regardless but how else are people with poor hearing able to actually hear anything on these phones though.

Usually most of the time the main problem I have is fucking people playing music on there phones, usually people 25 or younger who just don't care about others. I get more of them then actually boomers doing it.

Learning technology when you grown up without it and then expecting to learn all about it when your aging and getting older and brains just don't work as well.

Regardless of who it's fucking annoying and I hate it but I mainly blame the companies who don't incorporate better accessibility for people and society (mainly past society) just never teaching people and society as a whole for this fucking American shit culture we have.