• heird@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    What about millennials then? We spend a lot of time online and yet are doing better

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      2 years ago

      We were there when they sprouted.

      We had pop-up browser window JavaScript viruses that looked real and Nigerian princes, we are just suspicious of everything free.

      Looking at you, sexy pole dancing girl that knows my mother’s sister‘s nephew‘s roommate‘s father‘s credit card number.

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      2 years ago

      We don’t have 15-year-old immature brains. Gen z are lovely bunch, but many of their brains are still baking.

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        A significant portion of them is in their 20s now.

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          Brains finish developing around 25. But that’s not really the point. Many of them are young and that will move the results of the group enough.

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      The difference I think is that we grew up with the technology. We saw the democratisation of the internet which makes us generally “smarter” on that front. We also had to fiddle and understand the technology more than Gen Z has to. It’s also probably far easier to scam/get scammed nowadays with crypto bros and influencers being absolutely everywhere.