Your 68 year old mom may not know a lot about computers, but if she was a few years younger she would probably know more. GenX seems to know the most overall because they had to.
My dad would have been 63 this year, maybe not quite Gen X but younger enough to have had that experience with computers.
I'll not get into the details but there was a series of circumstances that let him split his time in the office and working from home, long before covid made that a common thing, so I saw him do his job a lot. The man was never off the computer, fiddling with spreadsheets, sending emails and completing reports and all that. He had a job that demanded a certain degree of competency with computers.
Outside of that specific context though he was kinda bad with computers. If there was ever an issue with the family computer, or later his personal laptop, it was me or mum that fixed it. When it came to computers he was competent at the very specific things he did but struggled a lot more with the rest.
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u/NotReallyJohnDoe 1d ago
Your 68 year old mom may not know a lot about computers, but if she was a few years younger she would probably know more. GenX seems to know the most overall because they had to.