Why do the older generation especially like to forward rumors and chicken soup in WeChat circle of friends?

Now the Internet is really developed. Almost every city and village in China will have an Internet. Now almost everyone in China can't live without the Internet, and everyone's life is closely related to the Internet. This is the biggest change in China these years. Wechat is a familiar chat tool. Young people nowadays like to use WeChat. In fact, the old people also like it. However, compared with young people, middle-aged and elderly people have more problems when using WeChat.

I saw a piece of information showing that there are many rumors on WeChat now, but most of them are middle-aged and elderly people, because the data shows that 80% of users who forward more than five rumors every month are middle-aged and elderly people, among whom there are more elderly people over 50 years old. These situations really deserve everyone's attention, because rumors are very harmful to society, and the harm of forwarding rumors is not small. What is the problem with the elderly forwarding rumors?

First of all, I think old people and young people have different views on things. They have traditional ideas. Most people think information is credible, or they think information is more secure. This idea comes from people of their time. They are sincere and don't spend too much time, so these people will naturally be deceived by some information in the modern online world and eventually forward these rumors.

Secondly, the elderly have poor ability to respond to information, mainly because they have poor ability to distinguish between true and false information when they see it. Basically, after reading it, they will believe that this poor reaction ability has led the elderly to see some attractive rumors, but they will start to forward them on WeChat indiscriminately, which they think is a good thing.

Old people's information is relatively blocked, and their lifestyle is slower than that of modern people, which will naturally lead to their ignorance of some social affairs. When they see rumors, their natural resistance will deteriorate, causing greater harm, while the elderly are unaware of it. Why do the older generation especially like to forward rumors and chicken soup in WeChat circle of friends? The reason is as simple as that, so young people should remind their elders at home and often give them some rumors to prevent them from forwarding them.