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  I’d rather they know than have to constantly ask me for stuff.
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  Only if they’re assholes. 
  What a shitty take on what is basically a necessity in today’s world. If you like your family at all, don’t be a dick - help out and teach them tech as it keeps progressing. >
  
  Exactly. Someone who can’t use a computer in basic ability is seriously disadvantaged. Especially when you consider how fast technological advances have been in the last few decades >
  
  This is stupid. Boomers invented computers. In fact, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were both born in 1955. >
  
  Fun fact: most Boomer parents are not, in fact, Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. >
  
  My grandmother regularly used her computer and iPad well into her 90s and was really good at it.
  My mom is 75 and regularly live streams and maintains her organization's social media. 
  I'm gen X and I've been on the internet since 1989.  
  Maybe you just don't have a good relationship with your older family members and you should work on that. Technology is just a tool to make the world better. >
  
  Reddit hates old people, and blames everything on "boomers". >
  
  I'm gen X and most millennial I come in contact with know shit about computers. I'm sorry I taught millennial how to use the computer... >
  
  Fucking hilarious. I bet OP can't even write a basic program in any language. >
  
  Nonsense! parents and grandparents of millennials are generation x in general…. who grew up during the birth of home computing, we were at the vanguard of new technology adoption and the first people to have mobile phones.. fool. >
  
  You kidding. You know how many 18-25 year olds I get coming to work in an office and can barley use a mouse. Poking at the monitors like they are all touch screen.
  We all grew up with computers.  You are all growing up with phones and tablets.  Barely any use on the working world. >
  
  That's gen z, millennials grew up with desktops and laptops. >
  
  It was a big deal when you had a different color desktop than your friends >
  
  Why would they regret it? Now they have another way of contacting their grandparents >
  
  Boomers. Smart enough to invent computers. And operating systems. And programming languages. And the internet. And.... But too stupid to use them./s/s/s >
  
  Me: “Okay, dad.  Click on the Start button…”
  Dad: “WHOAH! Slow down! Jesus Christ.” >
  
  Right.. because millennials are brilliant for using streamlined touch devices that have been over-engineered for simpicity. Ask a millennial to figure out how to run Duke Nukem on ms dos. >
  
  That's precisely what a millennial would have done in their childhood. Today's teens and 20-somethings aren't millennials. >
  
  I'm a teacher and when my high school first got chromebooks, I was shocked by the number of students who didn't know that the shift key made capital letters. So this Gen X teacher had to teach millennials very basic computer skills. 
  There's no Caps Lock. How do I make capital letters? 
  Use the Shift key. (Student hits shift, then the letter) No, you have to hold it down. (Student holds down the shift key while typing the whole alphanumeric password). No, let go after you make the capital letter. If you hold it with numbers it'll make other symbols. 
  Not all millennials are all that great at computer skills. As a teacher I get told that my students are "digital natives" and know more about computers than I do. And that may be true for some of them, but most don't really know that much because nobody ever actually taught them. They just assume that they know. >
  
  I taught chemistry. Kids would make the font small and use the space bar on a line above because they had no idea what superscript was. Showing them subscript was like showing a magic trick.
  They were required to use a spreadsheet to determine activation energy from their measured data. I wondered why they were slow until I realised that they worked out every value on a calculator and then typed that into an individual cell. They had no idea how it worked.
  They could do all sorts of messaging and fancy social things on their phones but basic office programs (programs not apps😀) were completely unknown. These were 17/18 year olds.
  They understood when shown, but the point is that their IT use is quite narrow. They’re good at what they can do but not much was of use in an academic or workplace setting. >
  
  Someone please sit a millennial down in front of a Commodore 64 and ask them to run Oregon trail from the floppy. >
  
  I think everyone is getting confused by millennials and Gen Z?  I was born in 1981 and played games from a cassette on the C64. 
  Ready. Load. Press Play on tape. >
  
  I am a boomer. My father, when computers started to become really really prominent, took a class at the community college, because he didn’t want to be left behind.As years go on. he was big into genealogy, and the computer was such a blessing for him. And in fact, a couple of years before he died, he called me up and said, “I’m going to spend some of your inheritance.” which is what he would tell me whenever he was making a major purchase. And when I asked him what he was buying, he said a laptop. At 81 years of age.
  I’m dictating this on my iPad. I pay my bills online. I text, i use Zoom and Apple Pay and Siri, and I don’t need anybody to help me with those things. Neither do my friends and family.
  I don’t understand why it seems impossible for for boomers to understand technology when people, older and younger, do. If your parents aren’t using technology the way you’d like then isn’t it up to you to teach them? >
  
  We could have had a socialist paradise if only our boomer parents couldnt interact with the world. Very sad