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Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do::The generation that grew up with the internet isn’t invulnerable to becoming the victim of online hackers and scammers.

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[–] mascarasnake@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Generation X forgotten once again. Whatever.

(It was kind of expected at the time that the Millennials would be named Generation Y because they followed us, but that name never took hold. So they skipped Y and went straight on to Z, then continued with A.)

[–] Jesus_666@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago

Amusingly, your post forgets either the Millennials or Generation Z.

Gen Y are the Millennials and Gen Z are the Zoomers, which sounds more like a street gang from a Silver Age comic that it has any right to. Millennials and Zoomers tend to get conflated just like Boomers and Gen X do but they are distinct.

If you were born before the early 80s or after the mid-90s you are not a Millennial, you're a Gen Xer or a Zoomer. Generation Alpha are typically the kids of Millennials and some of them are starting to enter puberty already.

Basically, you can divide generations Y and Z by whether they have any clear memories of before 9/11.

[–] BetaDoggo_@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Breaking news: children are more gullible than adults.

[–] Redredme@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"children".

"Researchers and popular media use the mid-to-late 1990s as starting birth years and the early 2010s as ending birth years"

(source wikithingy)

[–] Jesus_666@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago

As per usual, everyone above the age of 40 is a Boomer and everyone below the age of 40 is a Millennial. All other definitions have to bend to accommodate.