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Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do. The generation that grew up with the internet isn’t invulnerable to becoming the victim of online hackers and scammers. (www.vox.com)

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[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 46 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Exposure to technology does not automatically breed expertise. I have a 15 year old. Smart phones have existed for her entire life. She knows how to use Snapchat and take goofy selfies. That's where her expertise ends. Any time anything is wrong, she sounds like her grandma complaining "mY mOdEm DoEsNt WoRk!" It's not a modem grandma! That's your computer! Most of her friends are the same way.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 43 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And "WiFi" is synonymous for "Interenet connection" to them.

Yea, kiddo, the WiFi is working just fine, but the ISP crapped its pants and you can't connect to anything past this house.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 28 points 10 months ago (2 children)

My partner is a millennial who grew up with computers, but never got too technical with them. She was confused when I told her that our WiFi was down at the router, but we still had an internet connection.

"If we have internet, why can't I connect?"

Because the WiFi isn't working.

"But you said we still have an internet connection."

Well, I do, and so would you if you'd let me run an ethernet cable to your office, too!"

"...but if there's no WiFi, why does the cable work?"

Lol

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Not to mention most ISP marketing is pretty loose in its terminology. Most if not all radio or tv ads these days seem to interchange internet and wifi as if they are one and the same on a daily basis.

ie. All ads stating something along the lines of "subscribe to whole home wifi for a low monthly fee."

I have too many conversations on both sides of the age gap trying to explain the difference between supplying your own router with its own wifi capabilities as opposed to a ISP modem/router combo.

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've had this conversation so many times with my partner. She's on an older laptop in a room that's directly through a pretty thick wall from the router, but its still a short distance to bring an Ethernet over, and she's always using her laptop only at her desk there anyway.

She's always yelling at me (who have my desk right next to the router, and everything I use has Ethernet ) that the internet is down again and that she really needs it right now, because work.

But no, getting angry at me that I should do something about it is fine, but that something apparently shouldn't mean the most feasible solution.

I'm not dealing with a WiFi extender for a spot that's literally like 8 meters from the router, for her 100mbs WiFi card.

But it's her loss, at least I have the remaining 900mbps for myself from our plan...

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Here, you can plug this into your laptop whenever the WiFi goes down and you need internet RIGHT AWAY. If you don't need it urgently, then you don't have to plug it in.

"But wires are ugly!"

Not if you keep them organized!

"No, they're just ugly! Just fix the wifi so this doesn't happen anymore!"

...yes dear