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While the young people of this generation are generally useless when it comes to something more complicated than microsoft word, the people who are good at technology, usually are very good at it.
"Young people bad!" This paragraph has nothing to do with the rest of the post.
As a young person, this generation sucks at technology.
There's neither women nor non-adults on the internet.
In fact, there's no one on the internet. Its all bots except for you.
Damn, I suspected as much. The NSFW stuff, tho
While the young people of this generation are generally useless when it comes to something more complicated than microsoft word
Generalizations and eager bootlicking of generational propaganda isn't helpful at all.
I am literally speaking from experience, as a young person.
I am literally telling you generalizations aren't helpful. I don't care about your age.
Maybe, but I was on the internet as a teen and that went fine, being careful is a general thing in life.
But more importantly: adults have a phone and use it during work ALL the time. So I’m not so sure about the average age of the people commenting on here.
WARNING To the People of Earth: Teenagers exist. BEWARE
Pretty much yeah, most people assume that no one under 30 is on fedi because its "hard" to use.
I'm 19 and assumed that there are at least a few. And with that I'm correct.
I'm 24 and I'm using it just fine. I'd say that after signing up somewhere and getting an app to login into, the rest is pretty simple and much similar to reddit
I was smarter than the rest of you all when I was a teen. It wasn't until I became an adult did I get this stupid.
Hey, fuck you for calling adults stupid. Some of us have been stupid the whole time! Edit: /s
No, we've definitely gotten dumber as time has gone on. Especially socially; interpersonal skills have basically vanished since I was in high school.
Some are easy to spot because they don't understand that being apologetic has little to do with apologizing, for example. 😅
I'm sorry?
Found the teen! Yo guise, I caught one live! 😂
Ew, gross
WHAT!!!??
TEENAGERS??
ONLINE?????
Brooo I had no idea... how could this happen? I never would've guessed there could be teenagers despite at one point being one and using the internet. I get you're probably pretty new to being online but like come on, the rest of the world doesn't discover things at the rate you do...
Most of us would post on forums as teens back in the day, so it’s hypocritical to try to keep them from doing it too. The only places we should run them off would be communities we specifically make for adults. They don’t necessarily have to be NSFW. Sometimes it’s just nice to have a community where everyone is old enough that they get the same references and are in similar stages in life.
General music and hobby related communities really shouldn’t be blocked off, though.
This is actually a good thing - teenagers are known to bring niche things into popular culture! For some reason the whole of society kind of cares what they think is cool
It's just so tiring to discuss something like politics with someone who is literally 12.
I agree. Discussing politics should require some form of age verification! Reading the myopic takes are enough torture on their own, let alone having to contend with them.
(Yes, this is hyperbole. If y'all come for me I'll laugh really hard at you.)
Listen teens, I'm 40. I was a niteclub bouncer in a town popular with backpackers and partying, I also did a lot of traveling and partying. I was shameless, its a miracle it didnt fall off.
When you say you fucked my mom, its childish and stupid. When I say I fucked your mom while its not likely its possible... and thats worse.
It should not be that surprising. Many teenagers are really smart, curious and will find their way here. That said I realise your warning is well intentioned; I hope Lemmy remains a more civil place than Reddit became over the last ten years, for everyone; teenagers included.
But don’t assume everyone who is very active is a teenagers.
Some of us aren’t ;).
And you don’t have to understand federation to use lemmy. I’ve brought a couple of gen-z ers here. Get them to download voyager. Voyger automatically suggests lemm.ee for account creation. And then you just use it like reddit. Super simple.
Honestly as an older person it very much feels like a lot of Lemmy is under 25. It's the little things like not understanding the historical context that something from the past fits in while simultaneously telling me Im wrong about the time that I lived through.
You are either a 14 year old socialist furry or a 35 year old Linux user on the fedi. No in between
What if I'm a 21 year old socialist Linux user?
*Are. Not trying to be a jerk if English isn't your first language. Teenagers is a plural noun.
English is my first language, I have no excuse.
14 going on 40 so it will be some spirited ebeef. No quarter will be given
Odd post, but checks out
Teenagers now get banned if they tell their age anyway: !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
To any teens who come across this post, do NOT admit you're underage or were underage at time of account creation anywhere, anytime for any reason
It's like Rule 1 of the internet.
Sincerely, The kids who grew alongside the internet since the 90s
I was totally above 13 or had parental consent when I went to forums in the early 2000s. I totally wasn't actually 9.
It's wild to me this concept disappeared? It's literally never been a good idea to reveal you're a minor online. The laws are against you. Companies don't want to deal with a curated minor experience, even less so in the current times. If they do, you get the crappier version of things.
The worst thing to happen to the Internet is when Facebook normalized using your real name and real info online.
As a teenager who is relatively tech-savvy and on the fediverse, can confirm. I think it's gotten to the point where even less technically inclined people can join fairly easily, but the more savvy are usually the first to flee from enshittifying platforms so we see a lot more of them here.
Ah yes, of course other generations are much better with technology than today's teens.
They are, teenagers (saying this as a teenager) are hopeless. Tech became so easy to use that anything requiring a tiny bit of effort is impossible for these people.