For senior citizens, the world must be a terribly confusing place. As soon as they start to understand Facebook and iPhones, a new app or social media platform comes and turns everything on its head.
Such is the case with Snapchat. The popular app took the world by storm and is now worth an estimated $19 billion, with millions of users across the globe.
The folks in the latest Elders React video from TheFineBros are not any of those millions of users. A few of the men and women seen in the video had heard of Snapchat before, but most knew absolutely nothing. Some had never even downloaded an app before.
Oh boy. You can probably guess what comes next: old people struggling to figure out how to take a picture of themselves. There are also plenty of typos and spelling errors abound as the senior citizens attempt to add captions to their selfies. Many in the group also have a strange affinity for the app's drawing functionality. Do people actually use that? Weird.
After the "try it for yourself" portion of the video, the group collectively learns about the history of the app and what it's used for. Very quickly, conversations about Internet privacy, sexting and porn stars begin to dominate the conversation, and it's no surprise the majority of the group doesn't approve of how the app is often used. They do, however, understand the app's appeal. They've heard the Internet horror stories of how posts on social media have come back to haunt people. The group is all for posts being deleted after a certain amount of time, but that doesn't mean they agree with using it as a tool for sending nudes.
In other words: their reaction is probably what you would expect. Just don't expect most of these people to ever use Snapchat again. You can watch the full video below. Of course, you can always watch more React videos, like this one of elders playing Grand Theft Auto V over at the official TheFineBros YouTube channel.
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