• Kaerkob@lemmy.world
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      These delineations are quite silly especially when used in a derogatory way. But if one plays that game, there are still “zoomers” who are minors.

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        Those are probably only on mobile so their knowledge of navigating a PC is probably worse than a boomer and don’t even understand the concept of folders and files.

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          Yep. I feel like a failure of a father. I was talking to my 12 year old about some website and she was all “what app is that?”

          It’s not an app, it’s a website.

          But there’s no website app.

          You use a web browser? Like Firefox?

          What’s a a web bowser? Is Firefox a new furry?

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            There’s always going to be exceptions among those with a more natural tech based interest, but it used to be that everyone was exposed to using a desktop and not something that someone had to individually go out of their way to learn.

            This article all day way from back in 2021 showed professors having to rethink how to teach the basics, since now skills that were expected to be known were starting to not be common knowledge.

            Gradually, Garland came to the same realization that many of her fellow educators have reached in the past four years: the concept of file folders and directories, essential to previous generations’ understanding of computers, is gibberish to many modern students.

            https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z

            So yeah people who are more interested in PC gaming, streaming, and even pirating are more likely to find resources to be self taught. But, the regular people who are increasingly growing up only using phones as their computing device aren’t doing the same until forced to.