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What's a current or growing trend only you seem to have concerns about? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by HouseWolf@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I've definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is "smart" nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn't require any of that before.

What's some things currently making you ramble like an old man?

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[–] iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Smartphones have made the generation after me spoiled and stupid. Literally had to teach Gen Z hires how to use basic shit on a desktop computer, and watch as they chicken peck the keyboard.

[–] Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I was born im 1990, grew up on desktop computers, and did the hunt and peck thing until I actively began using my keyboard for research papers, essays, etc. It is a skill that I picked up on with use, not from instruction.

[–] iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm barely older than you and received typing classes in elementary school. Moving forward from about 8th grade and up most of my schoolwork was performed via computer. The only things I wrote out by hand in high school were math/science worksheets.

It's fascinating which practical skills schools fail to teach, differing by district.

[–] HouseWolf@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Part of it depends on where you grew up. born 1998 in a rural English village, We had computer labs or a crate of laptops but they weren't a focus for actual lessons and more of a treat between real classes.

Wasn't until I got to college that lessons actually started requiring you to use a computer.

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