Facebook reel is not appropriate

From news clips he says it's to raise money to keep his father out of a care home.

Too bad parents can't go back in time and monetized our stupid teenage years , right?

That is just horrible. 🙁

Too bad parents can't go back in time and monetized our stupid teenage years , right?

So glad I was a teen way back in the day before social media, surveillance cameras, phone cameras, and email. Saved myself years of mortification.

I followed the account you’re describing for a while…it’s Dan Salinger. I found his and his wife’s behavior toward the father to be so upsetting and inappropriate. It seems like it should be illegal since the father can’t really give consent. The son, Dan Salinger says he quit being a lawyer to start this social media career. I’m sure he’s making money from this. There are so many videos of Dan telling his father “your brother Bill died 30 years ago.” “Your second wife died of cancer.” Each time Ed, the dad, is shocked and hurt then asks his own age, etc. where he lives etc. It’s so cruel.

Ed is a retired podiatrist 90+ and his other son Mark —also from his first marriage —who shuns the camera— is also a podiatrist. Ed lives between the two sons’ houses on a rotating basis of four days each, I believe. He has other children including a young man in his 30s from his second wife. I don’t think he remembers that kid. Dan Salinger sells t-shirts with his father’s phrases printed on them like “Where’s my wallet.” He sells hats, too. People send them gifts. Dan loves all the attention. It was interesting to see at first, to feel not so alone and to see how families share the caregiving, but the shouting, dismissiveness, and lack of compassion were very upsetting. Many people leave comments about what a great caregiver Dan is and others suggest fibbing etc & they are ignored.

@AlzWife2023 that’s awful. My jaw dropped just reading about the t shirts. Much less the cruel answers about lost loved ones. I read the article and am not impressed by Dan’s new self, as he describes it. Yikes.

About 65 years ago, I saw a pair of conjoined twins on display at a county fair. About a year old, they writhed about in a glass case while lines of people looked at them. I imagine that would get their father arrested now, but social media is pretty much unregulated.