If you add in shouting at the phone to write text messages, you have my mother in law
Comment on Boomers with their loud Samsung phone sounds
Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz 3 days ago
Notifications etc I can’t 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?
zerosignal@lemmy.world 3 days ago
MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Someone told them they’d get brain cancer.
Seriously though, a lot of us olds have our phones Bluetoothed to our hearing aids. So at least with us you only get to hear one side of the conversation. “I’M ON THE BUS!”
zeppo@lemmy.world 3 days ago
My mother can’t comprehend how to use a cell phone without it being on speaker. She also doesn’t know how to switch it to speaker. If I hand her the phone in normal mode she holds it out in front of her and can’t figure out why she can’t hear anything.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
I mean… You just hold it like a telephone? Lol… Surely she’s used a telephone?
zeppo@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’s what I do not understand. She does use home telephones the same way, on speaker, but with those she comprehends it’s not always in speaker mode and if not, to hold it up to her ear.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Just join in. That’s what speakerphone is for.