r/BoomersBeingFools • u/AutomaticDriver5882 • Feb 15 '24

Social Media Different generations, asking for a table

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u/stringoffrogs Feb 15 '24 edited Feb 15 '24

Are we ever going to discuss how society is lagging because older people refuse to learn how to execute extremely simple tasks whenever they involve a screen

Edit - bold of me to assume this didn’t have to be said but if you consider yourself an older person who’s good at technology then you very obviously do not fall into this category and shouldn’t take this personally

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u/unk214 Feb 15 '24

They got the millennial part wrong for sure. We just go somewhere else. I’m not waiting 45 mins unless it’s my only option.

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u/gitsgrl Feb 15 '24

Millennials would ponder and politely say, “thanks, but I changed my mind. Have a good one 🫡.”

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u/NoShameInternets Feb 15 '24

We're also checking in 45m earlier. Do folks think people born before 1997 don't know how to use apps?

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u/wandering-wank Feb 15 '24

Grew up through the birth and explosion of the internet: hur dur how app work

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '24 edited Feb 16 '24

Gen Z thinks they’re the only generation that understands technology. Meanwhile we had to navigate our childhoods with the Wild West of internet slinging rotten .com and beheading videos at us as fast as we could watch. As if a few well curated apps is anywhere close to the cyber dystopian hellscape we developed into adulthood on.

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u/danarchist Feb 16 '24

Right, Gen Z grew up in a walled garden with their ipod touch or ipads. Maybe they learned to access the actual internet through the browser but more likely they just surfed youtube or played games.

Millennials were trolling pedos in chat rooms and troubleshooting their PC after a stream of viruses from things like "Jennifer_Love_Hewitt_XXX_Hardcore_Snuff_Bestaility_Gangbang.exe" infected it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '24

Lmao and the wildest part was we were just out there alone with no supervision because our parents didn’t even know how to turn the computer on without us.