[ SECRET POST #5746 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5746 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

This is true of people in their 40s and 50s, which is basically Gen X. Gen Xers are roughly 41 to 57 years old at present.

People in their 60s would have started using the net for work most likely at some point in their 30s or 40s (using 1995-2005 as the time period when people generally started using the net in a major way). So they have been using them for a long time, and technically it's true that it constitutes the bulk of their working life, but they also are very much not digital natives - they were relatively established in life when they came to computers and the Internet, and are much less likely to be highly fluent with stuff like web searches and reliable internet sources. And then obviously the older you get the more pronounced that effect becomes.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT - This! Honestly, I (an older Millennial) am definitely in the bottom third of my peers when it comes to being technologically savvy. Hell, I may be in the bottom tenth, for all I know. Yet I still know more about navigating the internet and using computers than nearly all of my Boomer-aged relatives and friends of the family.

I realize that there are plenty of Boomers out there who are adept at using technology and the internet, but there are also a LOT of Boomers who aren't. I also suspect there is a pretty heavy class divide with this. I mean, computers were expensive, and owning a computer that's even remotely current is still relatively expensive, plus, depending on where you live, paying for decent internet that isn't glacially slow was/is expensive. So a lot of people who didn't have much disposable income were slow to get on board the PC trend, and by the time they did get on board they'd already missed some of the learning curve and were stuck trying to play catch-up, which is always daunting. Plus, a lot of working class jobs don't require much tech competence, beyond the ability to operate whatever tills/phones/etc need operating.

I say this as someone who is working class and was raised working class. It's honestly a big part of why I'm not more tech savvy, I think. My household jumped on board the PC trend relatively early for a household of our income level, but my parents didn't know how to use the PC any better than I did, couldn't afford to pay someone to teach them, were too perma-tired to teach themselves, and we all lived in fear of doing something wrong and breaking it somehow, because we really, really couldn't afford to shell out more money to fix it or replace it.

I learned the basics eventually because, like, the internet was where shit was happening for people my age and younger. But the internet wasn't where shit was happening for my parents and their friends, so they just never really progressed with it.