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Ah yes, of course other generations are much better with technology than today's teens.
They are, teenagers (saying this as a teenager) are hopeless. Tech became so easy to use that anything requiring a tiny bit of effort is impossible for these people.
Its the same as its always been. There was always a small subset of the population interested and developing computer sciences. There was never this time where all the youngins knew computers like they did breathing. That was a fallacy.
You're right, but at least most millennials seem to be able to update windows, or download a youtube video if they're determined enough.
I would say you are kinda right, but working help desk for a few years taught me there are still a ton of dumb ass millennial users.
There is dumbasses in every age demographic, but the eejits in my generation are especially bad imo.
It always seem like that. I used to think like that too, 15 years ago
Eh, scratch that, I still think like that.
Your pretty much only thinking of the teens with myspace generation
Not most I know lol
At least the older ones.
In the 30s range at least in my experience.
Yep, fedi seems to have a lot of them.
You're admitting that after teens just got banned? Guess thats why its a throwaway lol
At 14, me and most of my peers could navigate a file system on DOS, format floppies, install games from setup disks, and edit autoexec.bat files.
Yes, there is a huge difference between the teens of today and the teens of 25 years ago. Technological illiteracy is real thanks to the iPhone era and UIs becoming stupid simple to use.
The "iPad kids" meme didn't originate from thin air.
Congrats, you lived in a social bubble. As we all do. Your sounds fun, so cherish the memories and don't pretend your experience is universal.
There’s kids today that still do that. And plenty of kids that’s call you a virgin and stuff you in a locker for being able to use a computer without a gui
I blame gen x and millennials...we made shit easy from the hard shit we built/had...and once everything was a button press the new generations went all Idiocracy.
It's the late 70s early 80s gen, aka the Oregon Trail gen
https://www.popsugar.com/tech/how-technology-influenced-generation-x-37522155
Huge variations. I'd say probably the technologically literate percentages of people is about the same... but tech has allowed the technologically illiterate the ability to use the internet.
This idea is absolutely laughable.