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Podcast: This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro
Episode: OK Boomers: Seniors, Technology, and Better Health
Description: It was one of those "I can't believe I fell for it", moments on social media, where somebody was going on about how this "old lady" couldn't figure out how to process a particular type of electronic payment at a store, when I started seeing red, especially because "old" was defined (in her mind at least) as "over 50".
The nerve!Â
Well, I can laugh about it now, but at the time I was pretty steamed.
Once I calmed down, I realized that I had fallen for the bait that the tech giants behind social media build into their algorithms, to g...