I work with a bunch of middle-schoolers. While they use a lot of tech, lot more devices than me & visit a lot of (imo questionable) domains, they refer to thing

I work with a bunch of middle-schoolers. While they use a lot of tech, lot more devices than me & visit a lot of (imo questionable) domains, they refer to things in a very non-canonical fashion. Like, they don't ever, ever, say file. They'll say googledoc. Where's your homework ? "Its a googledoc - here's the link". Or "its on google classroom". But not - "its a pdf file. or txt file. or jpg file. Similarly, "I like this song." ok where's the song - can you email it to me ? I don't get an mp3 file - instead its a spotify link. Can you email me that video ? I don't get an mp4 file - instead its some youtube shorts link. Like wtf happened to files ? Everything is a file. Atleast on Unix, even domain sockets are files. You open a socket, you get a file descriptor with inode, you can invoke fstat. I mean, I don't except middle-schoolers or even high-schoolers to know all that - but atleast you should know that on a computer, content is stored as a file. Know a bunch of common file formats. Like stop calling things pictures & sending me links - its a jpg file, send the file. Sometimes they click on the download button - but they don't know that the content got downloaded as a file and its sitting in the Downloads folder! Instead, they'll click the same Download button on the browser several more times until it finally shows them some link where they can click & view the content - super-infuriating. Even Professors have dropped the ball.In the 90s, they'd just email you the homework as a file. I have tons of calculus homeworks sitting as pdf files in a usb drive. But nowadays, its all "on Blackboard", or on some cms. No notion of file.