80% of online rumors are forwarded by middle-aged and elderly people. How to balance the inner and social needs of middle-aged and elderly people and minimize the harm of online rumors?

Why do middle-aged and elderly people become "big forwards" in the circle of friends and believe in these rumors? There are some reasons, such as loneliness, herd mentality, family relations and so on. The main reason is that middle-aged and elderly people have a low level of knowledge and are seriously out of touch with society.

Most middle-aged and elderly people have not received a comprehensive education from kindergarten to university and lack basic scientific knowledge. Most middle-aged and elderly people judge things empirically in their daily lives, and the source of accepting new things is mainly through word of mouth.

With the development of the times and the improvement of living standards, middle-aged and elderly people began to play WeChat, not only because the older generation rarely doubted the falsehood of traditional media reports, but also because the older generation lacked basic science education since childhood, and those fake news could be justified, and the older generation naturally could not distinguish them.

As far as these false news itself is concerned, there are two characteristics. One is for health, and the other is a little scientific knowledge.

Middle-aged and elderly people are most concerned about health, the health of a family. False news just captures the psychological characteristics of the older generation and attracts these elderly people who have a lot of spare time to study.

These false news also fully consider the cognitive level and thinking habits of the elderly, not only combine the reality, but also master some scientific knowledge into the article, so that the older generation can believe that these news are reasonable and forward them quickly.

Therefore, in order to minimize the harm of these false news to the network, we need to start from two aspects.

First, standardize cyberspace, severely punish organizations and individuals who spread false information, and severely deal with those who forward false information for more than a certain number of times or cause adverse social impact.

On the other hand, we should strengthen the care for the elderly in their later years and develop the cultural industry for the elderly healthily. The elderly population in China is increasing year by year, but the related supporting cultural industries are quite backward. There are several trends in good activity rooms and universities for the aged.

In my opinion, the spiritual life of the elderly needs the joint efforts of children and society.

As children, we should not drive the elderly out of our own life circle, but should care about our women and often chat with middle-aged and elderly people.

As a society, the cultural industry for the elderly is not only a business opportunity, but also a responsibility. We should carry out more activities beneficial to the elderly, such as organizing the elderly to watch movies and attend medical lectures, so as to enrich their lives and improve their scientific knowledge.