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Anon has low regard for the tech-savviness of zoomers (lemy.lol)

submitted 22 hours ago by nzmaa@lemy.lol to c/4chan@lemmy.world

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[–] cynar@lemmy.world 18 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The divide is that zoomers don't NEED to understand technology. They instead default to learning the fluffy user interfaces. Older users were required to know the basics of file systems, and even touch on command line operations just to get by.

Modern kids aren't required to learn that. They are perfectly able to, but no longer required to. We currently have a lot of newer "mechanics" that are perfectly good at driving, but didn't really notice there as an engine thing up front to look at.

It creates a binomial split. Many don't notice the youngsters quietly getting good. They do notice the increase in idiots out of their depth due to overconfidence.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 11 points 10 hours ago

Actually, that has always been true.

Yes the UI has become fluffier. But users have always just used first and most convenient way to do something.

They didn't need to know how file system worked, they just put all their files on their desktop.
Most never used a command line and never will. They would just shrug and do something else if it required it.
If a button is even slightly moved, to them it is a travesty that fucks over their whole workflow.

The subset of tech savvy users may be slightly bigger, but the majority never learned how computers worked beyond clicking around. That is in every generation. Our vision is just skewed because we grew up in a tech heavy environment.

But if you ever worked in IT support, you'd know that not knowing how computers work is the default in every generation.