cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27501866
source: @n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca
I thought they would be wiz kids…
Me too. They were born with phones in their hands, right? Understanding technology should be like breathing to them! But it turns out they started using it after corporations had locked it down and simplified it, so they only know how to use apps, not how any of it actually works.
Yeah, but these kids spend the majority of their time on phones and tablets, not PCs, and many of ’em don’t even really know what a “file” or “folder” is. Everything just does its cloud save thing.
Yes, the future is here and it fucking sucks.
Asked a user to log into a computer at work. She would have been around 25 or so about 6-7 years ago.
I was stunned watching her turn on caps lock each time she had to type a character in uppercase. I didn’t understand it at all until my mom pointed out she probably always used a phone or a tablet and never learned what the shift key was for.
Still blows my mind because by that point in that user’s education she had probably written hundreds if not thousands of papers to get where she was. I can’t imagine her doing that without using the shift key.
