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[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 138 points 11 months ago (16 children)

This has actually been studied. Turns out, zoomers are so reliant on smart technology like tablets and phones, they never actually learned anything about normal PC file systems or extensions. They literally don't understand what a folder is because they've never been exposed to PC or Mac environments.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 66 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I've seen people comment about needing to teach folder and file hierarchies to young people in CS classes because they grew up with cloud services and auto-save. Dunno how widespread that might be.

[–] alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 32 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've had to teach folders, file types and extensions to lots of ~18 yo. When I ask them where they saved a files they get confused and generally respond with something like "on the computer".

[–] Kiosade@lemmy.ca 23 points 11 months ago

Forget the 30 year old boomer, I present to you: the 18 year old boomer!

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