No matter how hard I try, no matter how persuasive I am, and no matter how many times she says "yeah you're probably right", my MIL still buys stuff thru links she sees on facebook. She's been scammed three times already this year and she did it again today. She bought a deeply discounted Harris-Walz hoodie, proceeds of which would "100% go to the campaign..." She already had her CC# stolen just a few weeks ago.
@MPCavalier Sorry to hear it. Having recently gone through it with my mother, my first thought was “early stage of dementia” — impulse control is definitely something that suffers
@MPCavalier More to the point, it took me ages to realize that she was becoming incapable of handling new information, which made persuading her to change her behavior extremely difficult
@Satchelpooch
She'll say "well I guess I learned my lesson" and then two months later she does it again. If I could just get her away from FB....