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  Yeah, well... that's because the kids that needed to be told not to believe things on TV are now the parents. Same naive generation, different media trap. /s
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  proceeds to take 40 information collecting quizzes on Facebook >
  
  Those "This is fun!" quizzes where you name your best friend, street you grew up on, favorite color, favorite teacher, best vacation spot, favorite song, all that shit.
  They're generally security questions you need to answer for password resets (including for facebook), and people still fill them out and post results lol. >
  
  one time my aunt saw a picture of a duck's head photoshopped onto an ermine's body on an FB post and believed for several months that the "Alpine Platypus" was a real animal
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  That’s some advanced stupid right there. “College course paid $1500 for one semester and never showed up to class” kinda stupid >
  
  
  course payed $1500  
  
  Did you mean to say "paid"?
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  Well in their defense, they did say don't believe everything you see on TV, but facebook? I need to drive across the flat earth to take out the baby eating lizard people so when jfk jr comes back I can watch him and Trump become dual presidents while putting bleach up my asshole! >
  
  To be fair this applies to younger generations too. Take a look at TikTok and the likes, the kids and teens on the app fall pray to so many fake things just like the older people do on Facebook. >
  
  It's crazy, I'm on the older end of the zoomer generation, yet I see so many people on the younger end getting fooled so easily by things people would roll their eyes at for being obviously fake. Maybe it's educational, but I've remembered and understood that anything on the internet can be fake, Wikipedia is not a good source because anyone can edit it, and that anyone can impersonate anyone online. 
  I fear it might get even worse, deepfake technology has gotten pretty good, and AI voice mimicking has improved to the point that if you're not familiar with the real person's way of speaking, you can easily be fooled. >
  
  Wikipedias a great source, as long as its not your only source >
  
  Truth is they became the very thing they tried to warn us about.