Millennials have been ridiculing the online mannerisms of baby boomers in a Facebook group

It is a Facebook group where members grumble about the younger generation, overshare details of their humdrum lives and misuse capitals while complaining about computers.

However, rather than being a refuge for baby boomers lacking in IT skills and self-awareness, it is the creation of millennials and Gen Zers sending up the online mannerisms of their parents’ and grandparents’ generation.

It is part of a fashion for digital role-playing, where people pretend to be anything from “influencers” to ants.

The “group where we all pretend to be boomers” was started three months ago and already has 268,000 members, including thousands of Britons. Its “faux-boomers” play the part of enthusiastic but blundering Facebook users of the generation born in the twenty years after the Second World