The internet is old people

The internet is changing. It's no longer about the future (even if Arcade Fire's new video brings people to tears) because it's about to be conquered by old people searching for nostalgia amidst the cultural repository the internet has become over the past decade and a half (I know the internet has been around longer than that, but the cultural nostalgia was a more recent development.)

Facebook's race to 500 million users had the scales tipped by the over 50 crowd. 

Where the elder boom is perhaps most evident is YouTube though, where plugged in seniors are jamming out to golden oldies and thinking about how they used to squeeze into that poodle skirt and saddle shoes.

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1 year ago 19

What do you know? A pair of wholesome clean cut kids singing great music without all the noise and riffraff. Today, they'll probably be laughed off stage for not being controversial or participating in that drug induced sexual garbage that plagues most young adult entertainers of today.

Not only are seniors using the internet more, they are causing younger people to think like septuagenarians, as evidenced here in a comment left on Percy Faith's "Theme From a Summer Place."

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4 days ago

@OperaPhantom1909-You're so right-It was at my grandfather's funeral when it really hit me that these days and such simpler times are gone forever!!!

It's well documented that once people see their parents doing something - slang, fashion, whatever - it's no longer cool. So how much less cool is the internet now that people's grandparents are messing with it, vlogging about early bird specials or posting unflattering party photos of rival retirement home clique leaders.

What's next?