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It seems that those aged roughly between 30 - 50 hit the sweet spot when it comes to computer literacy.
There is an interesting text about it, albeit it is 11 years old already: Kids can't use computers... and this is why it should worry you
wow, this some next level obnoxious boomer shit.
Is it incorrect?
there is no statement there so I don't know what you mean by "incorrect". all i see is someone who doesn't know how people use tldr.
Or someone who knows very well people use tldr to skip reading the post and you are annoyed that he caught you being that lazy.
valuing my time isn't lazy. if you can't summarize your post you're probably shit at writing and the article is not worth the time in the first place.
not trying to be combative, but this grumpy response over a 5min read does illustrate something and i hope its trolling tbh. the tldr summary that is triggering here is kinda a key point of the article - people looking for a quick interaction and then moving on.
this is what i mean by shit at writing.
this fails to be the point of the article unless the article is suggesting people are moving on to quick interactions because they are deliberately being moved away from longer articles by the authors that suggest these articles aren't worth their time... is the point of the article that longer content is belligerent and condescending?
I don't think it's actually getting any point across. it's just a boomer who thinks no one has anything better to do.
Was it too long for you and you didn't read it?
In that case ....This blog post is not for you.
That's what the question mark does. It marks a question.
RTFA? RTFA!
I didn't read it because the tldr is retarded.
In the sense that I don't believe the people described exist in any significant quantity, yes.
If you are offended by this, then you obviously didn't read the article.
Every now and then I read one of those panicked articles raising the alarm about how some member of the young generation doesn't understand folder structures or whatever, and I panic for a second because what if an entire generation grows up not knowing how to use a computer? But then I remember that I've read stories upon stories from Reddit and assorted boomer sites from the 90s and aughts about the exact sort of tech support problems described in that article, and that I've never met someone my age or younger who can't touchtype at least 60 words a minute, and that my sister for whom a command line is the scariest thing in the universe figured out how to install ReShade for a DirectX game she liked all on her own, and that our parents talked the exact same way about cars, and I calm down.
Late Gen x and early gen y had an off-line childhood and digital adulthood. I think that explains a fair amount about computer literacy, because a lot of what they were exposed to is the base config so they had to learn their way up.
although I find that there are plenty of both that are absolutely clueless about tech
Another weird thing that changed in that generation was communication style. Sms and email bred their own language and abbreviations..
Other notables - digital wayfinding (online maps and Gps), music purchase and consumption, proliferation of social media, adoption of online persona, all changes that gen x / early y lived through.
Im suspect about 50. Im just a bit older and it was thing for nerds back then.