Both statements may still true. Kids don’t use FB that much and FB is where they get their news. Alas. Many people sign up for news aggregator services and many of them later get frustrated and stop using them.
I must be such a masochist… I watched the Convention on C-Span most of the night, even though I’m not of that political persuasion. As I do with the debates, I watch for theatre, for that moment when Clint Eastwood is talking to the empty chair. It’s awfully rough to take hours of vitriol just for the few seconds of seeing what Bob Dole is looking like these days and what embarrassing costume the Texas delegation is wearing. I just can’t not watch. [Please don’t take this as political commentary. I could just as easily be talking about the other side. The point is that I willingly subject myself to content that upsets me personally and I realize that that’s not smart…but I can’t stop myself.]
Shaw - I think my kids just look at out local stations online sites and CNN.
MP - I don’t know how you do it! That would put me to sleep in seconds. Huh----maybe a way to beat my insomnia…
I think our kids might be somewhat out of the ordinary.
Here’s a site with some data: http://www.journalism.org/2015/06/01/millennials-political-news/.
Here’s a couple of quotes:
When it comes to where younger Americans get news about politics and government, social media look to be the local TV of the Millennial generation. About six-in-ten online Millennials (61%) report getting political news on Facebook in a given week, a much larger percentage than turn to any other news source, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis. This stands in stark contrast to internet-using Baby Boomers, for whom local TV tops the list of sources for political news at nearly the same reach (60%).
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Even looking just at members of each generation who are on Facebook, Millennials still stand out for seeing somewhat more political content on the site. Roughly a quarter (24%) of Millennials who use Facebook say at least half of the posts they see on the site relate to government and politics, higher than both Gen Xers (18%) and Baby Boomers (16%) who use the social networking site.
Another source: https://www.americanpressinstitute.org/publications/reports/survey-research/millennials-news/.
The data also suggest that social networks are exposing Millennials to more news than they were initially seeking. Overall, just 47 percent who use Facebook say that getting news is a main motivation for visiting, but it has become one of the significant activities they engage in once they are there. Fully 88 percent of Millennials get news from Facebook regularly, for instance, and more than half of them do so daily.
Need some recommendations. I am not a big TV person but thought I would give Netflix a try this summer at the lake to catch up on some old shows. I wanted to go back and watch The Good Wife, Game of Thrones and Criminal Minds but these shows are unavailable for streaming. You need to pay extra to get the DVDs. Is there another streaming place that is better to use? I am still in my free trial period with Netflix but I have to say I am underwhelmed.
We are Amazon Prime members and thus have access to their programming. It’s pretty good. However, the Netflix interface or app or whatever it us is better than Anazon. On Amazon, we get occasional buffering.
I just want to watch old TV series that I missed while the girls were growing up. Can’t seem to find that…
I just did a free trial with Netflix so that I could catch up with the last two seasons of Orange is the New Black.
It was a lot to watch within a few weeks. Still hear the opening music in my head. Had unusual dreams.
But really love the show.
Now I do need to cancel as I did not love the mess of streaming.
We have also been underwhelmed with netflix. We have used Hulu a bit and that works okay. Also use Amazon Prime. For us it hasn’t been a 1 stop shopping type thing. Some stuff we find on netflix, some on hulu and some on amazon.
Hi all.
On a quck break but thought I’d poke my head in. Great news re boysx3.
In our diverse viewing habit household, it takes Netfix, Hulu, Apple TV, Amazon Prime and Comcast xfinity on demand to please both H and I in terms of choice/mood/etc.
Which is slightly insane considering I might watch 5 hrs of television and one movie a week 
so. Guess that’s a sign I’m underwhelmed with it all!
The heatwave is mildly helping survive the Unheated pool phenom. I got a new heater in but the installer I had to beg to get isn’t coming til Sunday. To give you an idea of how shaded this pool is, th 95 degree weather daytime highs has only raised water temps to about 76 degrees, meaning I will never go without a heater in this pool, even if I have to eat cat food in retirement to pay the gas bills
In other news, my tendon issues are not resolved. I’m not an especially patient person and this feels like its taking forever. Doc gave me physio and narcotics, the latter of whch i wont use unless desperate. And i have 18 family members coming for a 2-day campout Canadian civic holiday weekend (July 30). There’s weeds that need whacking, camp potties to erect, picnic tables to be moved, and a boatload of food and beverage prep to handle and I’m gimping around like an octegenarian. Perhaps the narcotics will come in handy after all
But Frustrating, and made worse by helpful idiot mch, who against my explicit orders, tried to move the 200 lb+ heater when delivered and blew his own knee. Good grief, time for a live-in something or another
Kmc, sorry about your tendons. So sorry.
We have reached the time of the year where our pool water is barely refreshing, if at all.
Are y’all familiar with The Color Purple, where Celie finds all the letters from her sister? Younger D has had a terrible time getting mail at her apartment complex. We’ve been told three different “definitive” addresses over the year. Today she received a text from her complex that she had some letters. They were the Save the Date, shower invitation and wedding invitation for Son/DIL’s wedding.
@kmcmom13, I hope things turn around soon.
I’ve got a consulting assignment in Calgary and then we are going hiking in the Canadian Rockies (where last summer I pulled out the ACL graft which I’d had 25 years earlier). Hopefully I’m in much better shape than last year – but I’m getting psychologically prepared for the need for a knee replacement.
The following week, I’m going to have a minor surgery. So, no real travel for the month of August.
In Toronto changing planes - been in lovely Vancouver BC working this week. Headed back home to a heat wave.
Just arrived in NYC, where it’s 22 degrees warmer than Vancouver!
Sending the healing vibes, kmc.
Stop reading here if you don’t want to hear me whine 
Not my best week. I started feeling a little lousy on Wed evening and have come down with a nasty cold. Worked from home on Thursday and left early yesterday. Feeling a little better today. It’s just a cold, I know, but I am rarely sick. Last cold I had was 6 years ago. I have never called in sick at work in the almost 8 years I have been there.
Today’s plans are a memorial service for a woman I knew from church. Very sad and she will be so missed.
I think I am just worn down from a lot of personal stress this summer as well as all that is going on in our country and the world.
I do not post anything political on FB and I made a decision yesterday that I would no longer “like” and political posts even if I agree. Too much cluttering up my newsfeed and if I like a post it clutters up my friends newsfeed.
I rarely post on FB and have never posted anything political there. Not sure I’ve even liked anything political but my FB is littered with political articles these days. The a mean-spiritedness of the election process and especially the last few days – calling Mexicans rapists (though Reince Priebus was certainly kind in informing us that not all Mexicans are rapists), including conversion therapy for gays in the platform, a failure to repudiate anti-Semitic statements that is enabling vermin like David Duke cover to resurface and run for the Senate, etc. – and the willingness to just make up facts leaves the country in a place that I find really dismaying. I don’t know how the country gets back from this kind of divide. As a columnist I read this morning wrote, even if Trump loses, a number of Republicans may learn from his nomination that the way to win the nomination four years from now or to win re-election in two years is to keep/ratchet up the same spirit.
A couple of days ago, a friend of ShawWife’s was over in the afternoon. I was working upstairs. At one point, ShawWife shouted, “Shawbridge, I need your help immediately.” This friend had left to go to marital therapy – she had separated from her H 3 weeks before but they were trying to work things out – and the H, who had always been punctual and especially so about the therapy, didn’t show up and didn’t answer his phone. She called the neighbor who verified that H’s was in the driveway and so she requested that the neighbor go inside. The neighbor found H lying on the couch unresponsive with his wallet and keys on a table is if taking a nap, called the police who determined that H was dead. Completely unexpected. The friend came back to us and said, “I can’t go there alone.” She is perhaps the least stable of ShawWife’s friends (ShawWife collects a few who have hearts of gold who are really creative artists but need serious medication to make it through the week). So, she and then I went over and waited for the funeral home to pick up the body. The police had to treat the situation as a suspicious death as he was something like 63 or 64 with no obvious issues (although he and his wife had returned the day before from a memorial service for his mother and his wife had separated and he should signs of depression well before either of those two events), but did conclude he had a heart attack. We didn’t really socialize with them, so I’d met the guy a couple of times in 20 years, but was in the room with his body. ShawWife has been helping a bit since getting the woman’s sisters to come and help, getting an urn from a wonderful potter for the ashes, etc. But, we’re leaving for the Canadian Rockies and will miss the funeral. She is not the most stable of folks and she is going to need a lot of support after the funeral when she tries to figure out her life.
Oh Shaw. Sometimes it’s pretty daunting to realize what being a supportive, responsible adult can sometimes entail.
FallGirl, hugs to you and I hope you feel better very soon.
Glad you could help, shaw. It must have been pretty upsetting for you and your wife. I waited for the funeral home to come for both my mother and MIL. That was difficult enough. Can’t imagine dealing with this with an unexpected death like that. I’m sure the wife appreciated it.
I think we are OK at it. For a while, I stayed with her at our house that afternoon and I wouldn’t say that she was sobbing, more convulsing. My strength in life is not helping with that kind of emotional distress. We just came back from the memorial service. Lots of family as well as friends of his from work. I knew his kids when ShawSon was in elementary school or middle school. One is now 30 and the other probably a little older.
She was very lucky to have you there shaw. Sometimes just being with someone is all that is needed.
I know you will but remember that about 6 weeks from now is when it could be the most difficult and an
email or call with help her a lot.