They really are terrible. They grew up in the age of apps and don't know how to actually use or maintain tech.
this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2025
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What blew my mind was when I had a teacher telling me about their experiences with Zoomers and indicated that they seem to have a near universal inability to grasp the concept of a file structure. They just apparently can't wrap their heads around the fact that when you save something that it has to actually go somewhere on their device.
I remember being flabbergasted the first time I had to explain this to some of the boomer teachers and admin staff with my part time college job. The secretary had no idea how to find documents outside of word recent list.
The idea that young people are even worse than that secretary is scary.
I had the exact observation. It's crazy
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It’s crazy how GenX/Millennials developed the app culture to make computers and phones easier to sell to boomers, but then it was when GenZ was coming up, so they didn’t learn the ways of yore.
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Yes but that's normal. If I hadn't switched to Linux at a younger age for pretty random interest reasons I would always have been a Windows user that games, nothing more.
It's never too late to start and you can just buy a raspberry pi and follow a few tutorials for a start.
How does he know? Because he's that 35 yo pedophile NEET that lives in his mom's basement
From what I've seen. They have zero patience to actually learn anything. They can't even watch a ten minute YouTube video without skipping parts and missing key information
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How about instead of ragging on kids these days we see that there is a very serious problem brewing, regarding how we're expecting to maintain this high tech society we've built going forwards. I would posit that it was the planning done by generations prior that have left society in a state where youth are not gaining skills that will be needed simply to maintain the status quo, let alone improve anything.
Congratulations. You've reached the point.
As far as I'm aware millennials are only just now gaining the power to affect kids education on a broad scale. And even then it's still mostly in the hands of Gen x and boomers on school boards and various state and federal offices.
This problem is vastly greater than anything a school board could meaningfully impact alone.
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Once again, GenX gets ignored. Whatever.
your arbitrary age based discrimination bracket got removed. you will be reassigned according to the following criteria.
not tech savvy: boomer
tech savvy: honorary millennial
tech savvy and poor: millennial++
greed fueled hate goblin: boomer
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Best I've heard it said, we straddled the digital divide. We went from 0-100, fast. And if you wanted to do anything with a computer, you had to have a good deal of understanding. I'd add early millennials to our group, maybe most?
Also, the boomers aren't as dumb as they're made out. While we kids were figuring shit out, they had new tech to figure out in the workplace.
Zoomers? Hopeless. My kids are Alpha, they're even worse.
Maybe if they had parents who did anything but whine about how no one pays attention to them they'd be better at using technology.
If you want recognition for being the generation that raised the zoomers to be that ignorant. /S ;p
Oh, whew, okay good. Anon’s complaining. For a solid minute there I thought he was about to do some seriously stupid shit like offer to teach those less savvy than himself, but thankfully anon isn’t that fucking stupid. Stay goat, based anon.
To be fair, a lot of them seem to have been taught to hyper-specialize into their given niche, and they will actively refuse to learn. The attitude of "that is not explicitly my job, and therefore I will actively refuse to learn anything else" is far too common from what I've seen, and is the actual problem.
I feel I have a special perspective on this, being at the cusp of millennials and zoomers. It's not so much that "it's not my job" it's more "I've been so conditioned that anyone and everyone will take advantage of me and I refuse to give them any sort of foothold to do so."
I love learning, and I do plenty of things outside of my job scope, and see the benefit of learning those skills. However, I absolutely see where they're coming from and have learned that the hard way too that allowing yourself to be trained on other things usually doesn't mean you now do those things, it means to management that you now do your job plus those things, and get paid the same.
Coffee is $5 a cup if you want cream and sugar, I can understand looking out for #1
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I'm always happy to learn new things. Whether or not I bring that knowledge to bear depends entirely upon my compensation.
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