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It is amazing to me that a generation that grew up with computers is so technologically illiterate. I spend so much time solving technology problems with my kid
by irrational 5y ago
It is amazing to me that a generation that grew up with computers is so technologically illiterate. I spend so much time solving technology problems with my kids (between the ages of 12 and 24) since they are clueless. It turns out that using phones, chromebooks, ipads, and a browser in a laptop is not enough to become technically literate. I even tried teaching them things over the years. They have absolutely no interest. They just want to get in there and go to Instagram, Spotify, etc. and don't want to know how any of it works. It is like someone who just wants to drive the car and doesn't want to know how anything under the hood works.
- jonny_eh 5y agoIt's so weird that your kids have different interests than you. Are they equally baffled about your lack of interest in their hobbies?
- irrational 5y agoTheir hobbies are literally instagram, youtube, and spotify. Any attempt to encourage them to expand their interest beyond these is met with indifference.
- jonny_eh 5y agoTalk to them about what they're watching on youtube or listening to on spotify, those are their interests. The apps are the just conduits. It's like your parents complaining about TV and Nintendo.
- irrational 5y agoYou don't have any kids, do you? On youtube they watch people creating minecraft worlds. When I talk to them about why they don't play minecraft themselves they tell me they would rather watch someone else. It so strange. They don't play video games. They watch other people playing video games. On instagram they just look at pictures of other people doing stuff. It's like they are living vicariously through other people's lives (most of which are surely fake) instead of living their own lives.
- nikau 5y agoAfter that discussion do you sit down on the couch and watch the football?
- irrational 5y agoI don’t watch sports.
- jonny_eh 5y ago> You don't have any kids I do actually. > they tell me they would rather watch someone else It sounds like they'd rather watch someone else.
- Jensson 5y ago> a generation that grew up with computers They did grow up with sandboxed computers that has some whitelisted applications and nothing else. That isn't the full computer experience. To me it makes perfect sense that they don't understand much.
- bostik 5y agoThe word you're looking for is "appliance".