My nephew who's 11 spends all his time on his tablet and doesn't know how to join a file to an email.
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Are zoomers tech-illeterate?
My nephew who's 11 spends all his time on his tablet and doesn't know how to join a file to an email.
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I didnt know how to yse a pc at his age too
I was too poor
I got a cheap dell laptop at 13 or 14
I figured out how to use it though
It was terrible but I was happy I could play gba and nds pokemon
I wanted a gamepad anf faster pc for ps2 games though
I was in a position to get on too
Idk why I didnt jump on it
Do you hud mini pcs? I always wanted one since full size desktop is too much for me because I just want to game
>tablet
Yeah, of course not. He's in entertainment wonderland. I only learned how to do basic computer shit because the computer I had was running Windows XP, and I wasn't allowed to use the web browser. You can only play Solitaire for so long before you get bored and find the registry editor.
Teach him then anon. Kids nowadays spend all their time on locked down shit that doesn’t let them frick around and break shit. I’m an older Zoomer and I only really got into computer shit after convincing school to give me some of their old shitbox computers.
Find cool shit he can only do on a PC and give him a craptop and let him loose. If he still doesn’t learn then tech probably ain’t for him. Zoomers and Gen Alpha kids who actually have tech they can do stuff on and are aware they can do more than just watch YouTube and play Fortnite are considerably more likely to learn computers properly than those who don’t.
Don’t just lament that the young’uns aren’t interested or are too stupid, at least try give them some support, or don’t complain when the next generation is terminally brain dead.
when i was 11 i had never touched a single email even though my mother gave me her windows 98 computer where i messed with microsoft excel
How the frick do you put CDs in that sideways drive? Aren't they gonna fall out?
Have you never used a CD/DVD drive? The sideways ones have little tabs that keep the disc in on drives mounted sideways
Like in laptop drives? Alright, got it.
You're talking to an 18 year old
I've realised that the average zoomer has probably never used a disc based console (or game consoles in general), and all their games as just downloaded with a button.
Top loaders are common enough in consoles and even the consoles that do have a disc drive oriented like that don't necessarily have a tray.
Isn't 11 gen alpha at this point?
He has buzzword brainrot, ignore him
The peak of gaining tech experience simply by growing up with it has come and gone. 90s kids experienced the peak. If you were born in the early 90s by the time you are a teenager you saw no cell phones and the classic computing turn into straight laptops and smartphones.
People born post 2000 are able to do everything they want to from a young age on a phone without having to learn anything. I work in higher education and it’s horrifying. Many of the freshman I see cannot spell, type outside their phone, use any operating system besides IOS and android or log into their email.
They have no interest in learning either. I see people all the time try to use a public computer and get frustrated and leave when they realize they are going to need to type in their credentials. They reset their password and forget it immediately every time they need to log in again on their own device and have no idea how their password manager works.
Honestly they are on par with the people I see in their 50 and 60 who don’t use computers either.
>People born post 2000 are able to do everything they want to from a young age
*2010
t. 2001 born
I've work in IT for 12 yrs now. I remember when I was first getting into the field that I was concerned that the next generation would know more..... I don't have those concerns anymore. My first role in IT was help desk. 18 yr olds are worse with computers then 40 yr olds. They don't know file systems, they think the PC is the monitor, they don't know where the power button is, they don't know how to send emails.
I still deal with end users in my line of work from time to time, thankfully not as much; its only gotten worse. Even crazier? interviews for entry level IT jobs. "im good at tech" means I know how to use an android phone and "side load". They do not know ipconfig or basic cmd commands. They don't know what AD is(fair I guess) and many of them have never even built a PC. These days I consider an applicant who has built a PC to be more legit then anything else, even I have met 4 yr IT grads who I shit you not only know how to use Mac.
The world is fricked, Their are a few weird kids out there now who mess with linux and stuff, but that is an extreme minority. I would hire anyone on the spot who knows what an fstab is.
In pursuit of making everything "easier to use", programs simply abstract away all of the decision making that would let you learn how to use it properly.
Getting a message to read a logfile has become a simple "Oopsy doopsy, something went wrong", because the alternative would mean confronting the user with "hostile" design language and "overwhelming" them with choice paralysis.
Some planned obsolescence device like a tablet is even more inclined to abstract away decision making, because it means that they can harvest more data, run more ads and maintain all of the preinstalled bloat- and adware, while also reliably cultivating a userbase that will just buy a new device if the marketing sways them.
Search engines are now also heavily lobotomized to favor SEO and advertisements, a lot of the old websites have succumbed to admin-rot and a lot of stupid idiots heavily favor using something unsearchable and unindexable like Discord, so even if something is substantially less abstracted, it's also often much harder to use that information.
Industrial advertising is unfortunately tied to advances in communications technology.
Being a luddite is unfortunately going to be the way forward.
There was a brief span of time where going to a real physical library wasn't the best way to learn new information.
No, they're still moronic.
They're still going to run all attachments that get messaged to them and not use an adblock.
>join a file to an email
how do you join it to go to another place?
>11
>zoomer
most posters here are zoomers
I have read a few times now that people think ludditism is going to become mainstream because people are going to reject technology for being too advanced or something.
It's actually going to happen because in the future nobody is gonna know how anything works.
This site is easily majority 30+
>This site is easily majority 30+
yeah, I would bet a bunch of non mainstream app-based websites are going to die out in the next 10 or so years as the next generations lose touch with the internet that isn't contained in a moderated walled garden
Unfortunatelly.
I have 12 yo cousin who can't even make tables in excel.
I'm 26 years old and I don't even know whar are tables in excel.
There seems to be an increasing number of people posting static images as webm files and I'm not sure if they're moronic or this is some new "I'm just pretending to be moronic" meme that I missed starting.
CS grads are tech illiterate. They aren't taught how a computer works; only how to be a cog in a vast corporate wasteland
It's gonna be really funny in 5 years when everything is an easy to use touchscreen UI while mouthbreathing terminal cucks will still be stuck in the dark ages.
This physically hurt to read on how moronic yet prophetic it is. I have to fight against this "easy to use" design on a daily basis just to get anything done, something broke? Oppsy Woopsy we made a fricky wucky! The terminal gives me a detailed error log, stack trace and core dump to glance at and fix it in a minute. I dream daily of making my uncucked android rom that works like 4.4 kitkat and is compatible with $LATEST_ANDROID_VERSION.
There were no dark ages, everything was just written in latin and mouthbreathers were too dumb to learn to read it, much like how I thought I was the haxorman when I learned to open the registry, until I discovered linux, learnt humility and gained enlightenment. I prefer the terminal because it's faster than fumbling in an 'easy to use' gui, it's more intuitive because I'm literally telling the comfuser what to do, and it's overall more pleasant.
Already the case
>email
Nobody even liked using this garbage in the early 2000s let alone 2 decades later. An email is just for account confirmation and nothing else.
Older zoomers have tech literacy equivalency to millennials. Every (US) school had classes on how to utilize computers, and most libraries had computers to use
Post-05 zoomers tend not to have anything that resembles tech literacy.
If you mean he doesn't know how to do it in the tablet he uses all the time, I don't blame him.
Mobile OS interfaces are an awful usability nightmare. Whenever I have to attach a file to an email on Android on my phone or tablet, I fumble around like a moron until getting it right
Not after controlling for race.
Then again growing up I always thought boomers and gen x were smart because the internet was a miniscule self-selected high-IQ fraction of the population back then. Turns out no, almost all of them are hopelessly moronic and illiterate in general.
What eleven year old is using email? I didnt touch a computer until I was 13 who the frick is emailing at 10-11? Not a oldfricker either.
>who the frick is emailing at 10-11?
I was.
Your parents failed you.
I would get on my school computer and email my cousin with my hotmail account. When I was in middle school, I discovered that the local admin account was .admin pw: admin. Fun times, I installed what I wanted on my PC, mostly emulators or continuum. When I was in highscho I put Halo on my share drive and gave everyone the password to it so we could play Halo 1 lan in class. The teacher didn't really care because we were the "good class" aka, we weren't black and yelling at her. She let us play as long as we got our work done. It was a computer animation class.
>I didnt touch a computer until I was 13
Why are you here?
t. touched a computer when I was 4
Black person hes 11 if your like a boomer blaming the kids for complete parental failure
Meh, he's just a kid. I'd only start showing concern if he's still just as incompetent as a teenager.
Also, you can't spell "illiterate", lol.
I'm fine with them being this way, if they consume video/pictures and do nothing else it means less malware. Remember when your mom/grandma installed 15 toolbars on internet explorer? Remember when the neighbor "broke" his computer because he was downloading music on limewire? Simply let them watch youtube and post on x/insta/tiktok. 70% of zoomers will never be allowed to have a white collar job anyway.
That's just normies norming. I'm sure he knows his way around a smartphone better than you or I since we don't give much of a shit about them, having grown up with PCs first.
>knows his way around a smartphone
lol wut
Everything is on fricking phones now. Computers are for vidya or office work to most people. It only makes sense. Shit sucks but it is what it is.
okay pleb you obviously can't code. everything people use on phones is made on a computer
if he's an iPad addict, he probably doesn't even know what an email is.
keep spanking that ass until gentoo is compiled
Yeah most zoomers are fricking homosexuals and brainless. Millienials are trash as well.
t.shit talking GenX
>Are zoomers tech-illeterate?
> 90s kids experienced the peak. If you were born in the early 90s by the time you are a teenager you saw no cell phones and the classic computing turn into straight laptops and smartphones.
>This site is easily majority 30+
>11
not a zoomer, he's something worse
>Yeah most zoomers are fricking homosexuals and brainless.
>t.shit talking GenX
>not a zoomer, he's something worse
>18 yr olds are worse with computers then 40 yr olds. They don't know file systems, they think the PC is the monitor, they don't know where the power button is, they don't know how to send emails.
god I wish that were me
He looks happy. I wish I was him.
>join
>email
Its not a database boomeranon, its called attaching a file to an email and he's 11, he'll learn that in IT files, its just click and drag nowadays anyway.
My brain is rotten and I probably have alzheimers. I was trying to figure out what kinda fricked-up SQL involved joining a file to an email for a few seconds
>This site can’t be reached
>Check if there is a typo in boards.4cuck.org.
>DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN
You made a thread on /onions/ about this you fricking Black person
This better be good
This is technically wrong, zoomers ended in 2003. Your nephew is Gen Alpha. I am Gen Jay-Z Also, I made my YouTube account when I was 10. So maybe your nephew is just stupid. Common issue.
>zoomer
>who's 11
Will IQfy ever learn what age range zoomer is and realize most of the posters complaining about "zoomers" are actually zoomers themselves?
Every generation spans 18 years, gen z starts in 2000 and the homosexualy revisionist "1980-97 Gen Y/98-2010 Gen Z/2011-2024" numbers gotta go.
your gay
FACT:
Generations are NOT defined by birth year.
They are cohorts of similar cultural and technological upbringing.
Not all Gen Z have all of these traits, but most have most of them.
- No memory of Pre-9/11, raised in aftermath
- Shift from an analog world in childhood to a fully digital world by adulthood
- Trump has been on the ballot all of their adult life
- Corona destabilized the start of their career
ETC
- Childhood home movies are on tape
- First cell phone was likely a hand-me-down flip phone when their parent or sibling got their first smart phone
- Social media emerges in childhood/adolescence, shapes their social reality
- Nostalgia for the DVDs, CDs, Blockbuster of childhood, adopted streaming in teen years, have NEVER paid for cable
It's these that define generations. Two people born in 1997 can be in different generations, depending on upbringing.
>join
born pre 2004 they know some stuff
born 2005 and later they don't know shit and are incapable of being taught
Blame the devs not your stupid nephew, it's always a pain to move files from a mobile device to anywhere. Btw if you clearly know your nephew is tech illiterate why aren't you teaching him? It's your duty as an old fart to teach stuff to younger folks. That's how it worked till now