There is teenagers on the fediverse. (lemmy.cafe)

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First of all, I don't mean this post as a complaint, maybe more of a warning?

There is teenagers on the fediverse. Most of them don't share their age, for hopefully obvious reasons. I'd say that a lot of the accounts which do a lot of posting/commenting are run by teenagers

because most adults probably wouldn't have the time for that much posting.

While the young people of this generation are generally useless when it comes to something more complicated than microsoft word, the people who are good at technology, usually are very good at it.

most of my friends (most of which don't know the difference between a laptop and a desktop) could understand the fediverse as a concept perfectly when I explained it to them irl.

So, if you're in a really stupid argument with someone, try to remember that there is a small chance they are 14.

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[-] LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 month ago

Ah yes, of course other generations are much better with technology than today's teens.

[-] throwaway@lemmy.cafe 19 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] throwaway@lemmy.cafe 4 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] Edgarallenpwn@midwest.social 12 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] throwaway@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 month ago

There is dumbasses in every age demographic, but the eejits in my generation are especially bad imo.

[-] kat@orbi.camp 1 points 1 month ago

Not most I know lol

[-] throwaway@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 month ago

At least the older ones.

[-] kat@orbi.camp 1 points 1 month ago

In the 30s range at least in my experience.

[-] throwaway@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 month ago

Yep, fedi seems to have a lot of them.

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 2 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

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

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

It's the late 70s early 80s gen, aka the Oregon Trail gen

https://www.popsugar.com/tech/how-technology-influenced-generation-x-37522155

[-] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

This idea is absolutely laughable.

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

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.