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Zoomers & Boomers are the same (lemmy.ca)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Classic Lemmy Linux users forgetting that access to a PC and the knowledge to use it is a privilege not afforded to most unlike budget smartphones which cost less than the keyboard you own and are becoming more and more of a necessity than a trivial toy as it was when we first had them.

Lamenting generational failures is a pastime reserved for the old to soothe their egos. If you actually care, understand the systemic reasons why young people are less tech literate and take the steps to reach them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

I understand the reasons, but so many people I've had to deal with don't seem to want to learn.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I teach high school and it's amazing to me how much these kids don't know how to use a computer. They can click a button and get to tik-tok. They read the first answer the AI gives them. That's it.

I keep telling them they should be better at computers than an old lady like me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 36 minutes ago

They read the first answer the AI gives them.

This is why Im terrified of my parents learning how to use ChatGPT.

My dad still falls for satire. It took us years to convince him the tabloids in supermarkets about Bigfoot weren't real.

He's not a smart guy. But He's still my dad though.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

It's the 1% vs the working class, not generation vs generation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I am a zoomer, and this generation as a whole is a lot worse at technology.

Its not something that's happened for no reason, smartphones become more popular and simple to use technology, and older people assuming these people will be good with tech as they grew up with it are big factors.

The 1% is causing a lot of problems, but this largely isn't by them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

Don't feel bad. Every generation thinks their tech is the peak of technology, older tech is slow and useless, new tech is fancy, dumbed down, and unnecessary.

Heck, I already got called ancient because I ran NSLOOKUP from the command line instead of going to a website and having their page run the command from a GUI.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

Youth bad, hate youth

Haha funny

This is the same rhetoric the Boomers used to keep us down.

Every generation is smarter than the last, us millennials need to learn to cope without ageist propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

IMHO, the tone is entirely different from "millennials are all worthless, lazy, whiny bitches" to "zoomers aren't as tech savvy as millennials."

For one, we millennials don't think it's totally true, and I think it's more a point of pride, because we grew up learning technology as it grew with us, than shitting on another generation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

This was the deflection made when boomers did it too.

Congratulations, you have now become your parents.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I'm not a millenial, I'm a part of gen z.

A high amount of this generation is hopeless when it comes to tech. There is outliers and exceptions, but as a whole, tech literacy has gone down.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

At the very least, your generation has the ability to eventually learn tech usage. Its not too late like it is for boomers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I've had a not insignificant amount of people who don't want to learn how to. Boomers can learn how to. I love showing old people how to use google lens.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

That's unfortunate. I used to work under a boomer boss who refused to let me teach him anything, instead whenever he was confused about something on his computer he'd just call me over. Drove me insane.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

There will be people like that in every generation unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

I'm a millennial computer scientist

This is literally propaganda

This is the exact same as boomers thinking they are superior to millennials for knowing how to drive stick shift or write cursive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I mean, its an apt analogy, but its more like people not being able to use the indicators or radio/heating system on a car.

Also, where I live every young person (at least, older than 12) can write cursive.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

But both cursive and manual stick shift (at least in the USA) are being used less and less, but computers are being used more, while literacy goes down.

I think it has to do with barrier of entry. Way back in the day, you had to be quite the hacker to operate a computer (say Amiga or ZX Spectrum). Then, with Windows XP (or 98), it became easier to operate one, but some tasks still required clever ways to solve. Fast forward to now, all you have to do is click one icon at the bottom bar, write what you want in the top bar, and you got a billion answers.

Most of the stuff I learned was because the path to successfully perform stuff required knowing lots of different stuff.

For context, first PC was Win 98 when I was 7, born 1996.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

For a while I drove stick, wrote cursive with a fountain pen, and wore an analog mechanical watch, and that was only about 8 years ago.

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