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It's interesting to me what someone on HN wouldn't be aware of computer aversion behaviours and malware related technophobia. Since it's not only extensively st
by quitit 3y ago
It's interesting to me what someone on HN wouldn't be aware of computer aversion behaviours and malware related technophobia. Since it's not only extensively studied but reported upon frequently. It is also trivial to observe directly, often within our own network of family/friends, and forms the foundation of the marketing behind so many anti-virus products.
The generation in my remark is the segment of people who did not meaningfully engage computers due to fears of malware and hacking, the same people who now have no issue carrying a smartphone with them everywhere they go.
Do you legitimately think these people didn't exist? Even though post iPhone, digital device usage has significantly out paced population growth, and become a societal necessity.
- dragonwriter 3y ago> It's interesting to me what someone on HN wouldn't be aware of computer aversion behaviours and malware related technophobia. I'm aware of them, and I've seen them across numerous generations with lots of members of the same generations being active computer users. What I am not aware of and no one has provided any support for is the claim that an entire generations refused computer use for the particular reasons stated upthread, the people that avoided computer use mostly did it for ither reasons, and the people with hacking concerns were mostly computer users, though they often had atypical usage patterns (sometimes reasonably related to avoiding hacking, sometimes heavily cargo culted.)