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FAKE NEWS SHARED BY BABY BOOMERS, BUT WHY?

January 11, 2019 by David Gillaspie

For online fans of social media there’s a drumbeat across many platforms saying the same thing: Baby boomers share more fake news than any other demographic. The usual cutoff age is sixty five, so I’ve got another year before I hit that wall. If you are a boomer I’ve got a question: Do […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Baby Boomers, blog, blogger, boomers, facebook, fake news, GenX, instagram, lifelong learner, millennials, news, Social media, twitter

SOCIAL MEDIA SUPER STAR IN THE WINGS

December 18, 2018 by David Gillaspie

News reports about social media and the ‘new awareness’ we all need to observe will never keep grandma from posting new baby pictures. ButI think I get the point of the warning. From my census training I learned how to gather visual evidence at the door if a citizen didn’t want to interact […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: American values, blog, blogger, facebook, fake news, instagram, SEO, social, Social media, social platform, sources, twitter, values, writer, writing, youtube

FACEBOOK DATA BROKERS GET DIRTY WITH OUR MUD

March 19, 2018 by David Gillaspie

The numbers are too big to fathom. $42 billion loss in market value? 50 million users had their data harvested? All we want to do is post a nice cat picture, not get sucked into some weird vortex of data mining. Don’t get me wrong, I like mining, but for the right […]

Filed Under: BOOMER BLOGGER Tagged With: blogger, cat picture, cats, data, data brokers, data miners, facebook, facebook data, facebook data breach, facebook data brokers, Facebook friends, robert mueller, Social media

DIVORCE NEW NORMAL: “WAS IT ANOTHER GUY?”

March 15, 2018 by David Gillaspie

Older people, a goal baby boomers are moving toward at hyper speed, have heard more joy and heartache than anyone else. We’ve got at least ten thousand hours in each encompassing most every possible outcome. At recent bar stop I learned a whole new take on divorce for modern times. It came […]

Filed Under: Toughen Up Tagged With: baby boomer, Baby Boomers, BOOMER, boomers, cancer, Divorce, gun, gun range, heartache, home depot, honey-do, husbands, joy, MARRIAGE, married men, modern times, new normal, sadness, shooting range, Social media, ten thousand hours

MILLENNIAL SELF CARE = SELF RESPONSIBILITY

June 4, 2017 by David Gillaspie

You know it’s not pledge week when NPR rags millennials about ‘self-care.’ Instead of pledging money to them, they’ll buy an ‘experience’ instead. Cue Jimi Hendrix? Gracy Obuchowicz says it’s more than just social media that has pushed millennials to the forefront of the self-care discussion. “Our generation has seen enough,” she said. “People […]

Filed Under: Toughen Up Tagged With: botox, dr. molepdx, facebook, facelift, jimi hendrix, liposuction, millennial, millennial bashing, millennial self care, millennials, Mole Removal, negative stereotypes, NPR, plastic surgery, pledge week, responsibility, self care, self responsibility, Social media, stereotypes

FACEBOOK FRIENDS: A WHO’S WHO

June 23, 2016 by David Gillaspie

All Facebook friends are not created equal. Vanity Fair loves Facebook. Who doesn’t? Can a billion people a day be wrong? Or maybe they’re cuddling up to Mark Zuckerberg, The Man, The Face, of Facebook. Understandable if they are. He is one of the big biggies of the online world. His is the biggest face […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: aging, animal kindness, Baby Boomers, boomers, Brenda Tracy, calm lifestyle, connected world, control freaks, facebook, friends, google land, Google+, healthy living, linkedin, love facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, microsoft, military memories, new friends, online world, Social media, social network, vietnam veterans, WWII veterans

HURT FEELINGS HANDBOOK FOR SENSITIVE PEOPLE

June 15, 2016 by David Gillaspie

How to get over hurt feelings. When bloggers go off message during inflammatory times, call it conscience. Like having a conscience. When we go off message, we lose subscribers, readers. We lose income. Moola. Over hurt feelings? I’m no Muhammad Ali, but if speaking up makes a difference, do it. If you can’t say, “Take […]

Filed Under: BOOMER BLOGGER Tagged With: blogger, boomerpdx, boomerpdx university, current events, free ebook, hurt feelings, Michael Jordan, muhammad Ali, offensive commentary, offensive post, orlando shooter, sensitive people, Social media, social media process, stanford rapist

PICKING UP CO-EDS 70’S STYLE

May 22, 2015 by David Gillaspie

Which One Was You? Before social media, meeting co-eds at college meant leaving the basement. Starbucks moved into the space on the opposite end of the block from the U of O bookstore. It the seventies it was a college bar, the best place on the street for 21 and over students. And everyone else. […]

Filed Under: BOOMER YEARS Tagged With: boomers, co-eds, college, dating, millennials, Social media, UO, UofO

A NEIGHBORHOOD MURDER

February 4, 2015 by David Gillaspie

How Close Is Too Close? Social media beat regular news to the punch. Again. No, it wasn’t Arab Spring and twitter. Not a former USSR satellite and a new Russian claim. How about a nice Portland, Oregon suburb and facebook? A facebook friend posted the story the moment they saw it…from Texas. The official story […]

Filed Under: Who's Up Tagged With: A NEIGHBORHOOD MURDER, Baby Boomers, boomers, checks and balances, crime scene, emotional discharge, facebook, facebook friend, killing, official reporters, official story, Portland, Portland Oregon, portland oregon suburb, Social media, story, street sources, twitter

THE BOOMERS’ BIGGEST BURDEN

June 16, 2014 by David Gillaspie

(one version of this post appears on oregonlive.com.) News about one generation or another usually explains what is wrong. Bad news has a reputation. Good news? Who wants to hear about someone doing better than you? Seniors being preyed on by unscrupulous contractors or relatives is always news. So are young people trying to create […]

Filed Under: Boomer Up Tagged With: Baby Boomers, generation gap, GenX, greatest generation, Millenials, Oregonian, Silent Generation, Social media, WWII

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