L4sBotGen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do
AccidentalLemmingI’m generally skeptical of articles making broad judgments about entire age groups. Remember those “millennials are ruining [insert thing]” articles?
leanew article in 10 years: Is gen alpha ruining the scam industry???
tb_One thing about this particular phenomenon that the article doesn’t take into account is that Gen Z is a lot more online than boomers are, hence they are exposed more often to the dangers it often.
And not even entirely by choice, a boomer - fairly well off financially - can reasonably spend years without touching the internet if they don’t work.
Imma fail my classes if I don’t sign on once a day, and depressed as fuck in my apartment if I can’t even watch Netflix lmao
phillaholicGood luck paying your rent without the internet too.
Did you even read the article? That’s literally the first reason they give:
There are a few theories that seem to come up again and again. First, Gen Z simply uses technology more than any other generation and is therefore more likely to be scammed via that technology.
Read the article? Gen-Z doesn’t read articles! /s
They acknowledge their bias but don’t account for it in their numbers, smells like statistics manipulation to me
It’s always the toast.
ANGRY_MAPLEI would love to see their sample group. Do their subjects share other aspects in common too, or do they just share a generation? Do they all have similar income? Do they all have similar access to the internet? Do they all have the same educational background? Do they use technology equally? Were the actual poll questions biast? What defines “scam” in this scenario? Who paid what as a result of these scams? Are they of the same political background? Are disabilities and minorities represented fairly across age groups? Was there any profit resulting from this poll? Do the participants all live similar lifestyles at home?
I’m always suspicious when they don’t list these things. It can be very easy to create biased results.
1984It’s what media does - focuses on the differences between people instead of what’s common.
Skepticism is good. However, there is a lot of evidence that Gen Z is quite tech illiterate in general, but especially compared to the Millennial cohort. Colleges and universities have had to force Gen Z students into basically remedial computing courses just to teach them how file systems work and other simple-yet-taken-for-granted concepts work. Drop rates for CS degrees are climbing as Gen Z moves into higher education and hits a very difficult wall for them.
And, in the end, that last bit was definitely another scam targeting their relative ignorance in the space. That is why so many “influencers”/scam artists target/targeted them with “career guides” or code boot camps or whatever. And I think that disillusionment is also part of the backlash against devs in general as “tech bros” despite very few devs actually working in the Valley for those companies under those conditions.