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The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think (2016) (www.nngroup.com)

submitted 5 months ago by BodaciousMunchkin@links.hackliberty.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You mean the twenty to thirty somethings that have come along. They have one folder with all their stuff in it and sometimes spend quite some time just looking for a file because they are unwilling to organize it or even sort it by file type.

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm a 20-30 something (26) and, generally, I think it's younger people who are starting to struggle with this (<21 maybe?). All of my classmates seemed to be OK at handling files. From what I saw in highschool and college it was more to do with computer hygiene than incapability.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I am 22 and yeah I have some friends and some younger relatives that don't know how to do that. It's because they grew up with smartphones. I think we were one of the last generations (at least where I live) that smartphones only became prevalent after we were teenagers so using a computer for most things was still something we learned.