The fact is most people of any age don't care how things work and don't like putting in any extra effort into tech. Imo old people are sometimes worse with this.

People who want to understand how technology works are a minority, and those who actually do understand are an even smaller minority. Nobody can understand how everything they use works to a reasonable level of detail anyway. You either have surface level details of lots of stuff, or more detail about some specific things. Modern systems are just too large and complex to completly fit in a human brain.

Edit: When the comment I was replying to was first written it didn't include the age of the people they were talking about. Now that I know those it sounds less like a generation issue and more like the behaviour if children and teenagers. I think the person I am replying to needs to understand the difference between generations vs just still being a kid. Although personally I got into the technical side of things as a teenager.

[–] grahamsz@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Imo old people are sometimes worse with this.

100% this. We were paranoid that facebook would melt our kid's brain, but in reality it's messing up our parents' generation.

My 9 yr old is conflicted because all his friends are on Messenger Kids and he wants to talk to them, but doesn't want to give facebook access to his data.

[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You pretty much need a parent or some other reference person (which can be people in the internet) to teach you that, though. The chance of that having happened is a bit higher the more mature you are, just because you had more time to also figure out the other important things of life.

I think it's only a small difference though, because the unwillingness to learn new things also increases with age. I think the highest chance for someone to want to know how things work is around 25-35 or something. However, as you say, people of all ages generally don't care how things work, and all ages have people that do care how things work, it just depends on the person.

But probabilities are still a thing and I think it's a bit more likely for teenagers to not care to understand how something works.

[–] areyouevenreal@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They didn't specify the ages when I first replied. Now that they have specified they are kids I think it's even less of a generation issue and more of a teenager or child vs adult issue that's being wrongly framed as a generation issue.

[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I think they just used "zoomers" and "very young people" interchangeably.