“Kids who grew up on smartphones do not know how to do anything on a computer”

Re:“Kids who grew up on smartphones do not know how to do an... by irrational on Thursday October 07, 2021 @01:46PM (#28789745)

It is amazing to me that a generation that grew up with computers is so technologically illiterate. I spend so much time solving technology problems with my kids (between the ages of 12 and 24) since they are clueless. It turns out that using phones, chromebooks, ipads, and a browser in a laptop is not enough to become technically literate. I even tried teaching them things over the years. They have absolutely no interest. They just want to get in there and go to Instagram, Spotify, etc. and don't want to know how any of it works. It is like someone who just wants to drive the car and doesn't want to know how anything under the hood works.

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Re:“Kids who grew up on smartphones do not know how to do an... by Jensson on Thursday October 07, 2021 @01:49PM (#28789791)

> a generation that grew up with computers

They did grow up with sandboxed computers that has some whitelisted applications and nothing else. That isn't the full computer experience. To me it makes perfect sense that they don't understand much.

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Re:“Kids who grew up on smartphones do not know how to do an... by bostik on Thursday October 07, 2021 @02:56PM (#28790648)

The word you're looking for is "appliance".

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Re:“Kids who grew up on smartphones do not know how to do an... by jonny_eh on Thursday October 07, 2021 @01:47PM (#28789771)

It's so weird that your kids have different interests than you. Are they equally baffled about your lack of interest in their hobbies?

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Re:“Kids who grew up on smartphones do not know how to do an... by irrational on Thursday October 07, 2021 @04:47PM (#28791834)

Their hobbies are literally instagram, youtube, and spotify. Any attempt to encourage them to expand their interest beyond these is met with indifference.

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Re:“Kids who grew up on smartphones do not know how to do an... by jonny_eh on Friday October 08, 2021 @12:19PM (#28801003)

Talk to them about what they're watching on youtube or listening to on spotify, those are their interests. The apps are the just conduits. It's like your parents complaining about TV and Nintendo.

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Re:“Kids who grew up on smartphones do not know how to do an... by irrational on Friday October 08, 2021 @06:57PM (#28805066)

You don't have any kids, do you? On youtube they watch people creating minecraft worlds. When I talk to them about why they don't play minecraft themselves they tell me they would rather watch someone else. It so strange. They don't play video games. They watch other people playing video games. On instagram they just look at pictures of other people doing stuff. It's like they are living vicariously through other people's lives (most of which are surely fake) instead of living their own lives.

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Re:“Kids who grew up on smartphones do not know how to do an... by jonny_eh on Monday October 11, 2021 @02:15PM (#28831200)

> You don't have any kids

I do actually.

> they tell me they would rather watch someone else

It sounds like they'd rather watch someone else.

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Re:“Kids who grew up on smartphones do not know how to do an... by nikau on Saturday October 09, 2021 @06:58AM (#28808737)

After that discussion do you sit down on the couch and watch the football?

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Re:“Kids who grew up on smartphones do not know how to do an... by irrational on Saturday October 09, 2021 @11:12AM (#28810532)

I don’t watch sports.

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