My mom just got her phone hacked when she called a facebook "support" number to try to get help to fix the fact that her facebook was hacked... she literally got hacked trying to fix the fact that she was hacked.... old people really should not be allowed on the internet.

@freemo Welll... aren't you ageist! ;)

People who scam older people (or scam anyone for that matter) really should not be allowed on the internet. <--- Fixed that for ya!

@Lunatech Do you think a 12 year old should be allowed to drive a car, own a gun, and have full self-autonomy like a person of any other age? If not you're ageist.

@freemo Actually I think we set the age way too high for many things. Farm kids often dreive cars ar 12 or earlier. Someone in my family recently bought a an all terrain vehicle that drives like a amall car (and can reach speeds of 70 mph!) from a farmer and his 10 year old was driving it around with no problem, granted this was not on a road with traffic but in some ways it was more challenging because it wasn't a wide open road. However, that said, there's a big difference between giving kids responsibilities they aren't yet ready for (or haven't been trained to handle) and telling older people that they should not be allowed to do ceratin things just because they have reached a certain age. You may not understand it now, but you will when you go to the doctor and s/he starts talking to the person who brought you in about your condition instead of addressing you directly (pro tip, never see that doctor again!).

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And don't even consider age-related "rights" and conscription age.

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