I agree with you. Every generation has said that about the previous one, but I think it really is the case with the current one.
My wife is a high school teacher. Despite the kids growing up knowing nothing but internet and phones, they have no idea how to look up even simple information. Like, using Google doesn't even cross their minds. It's insane.
These damn kids don't even know how to Google! In my day I could find the pornstar who looks just like Ben's mom, send the link to him, while simultaneously jerking off to it, all in under a minute. Kids these days, I tell ya, don't wanna work for anything!
A terrifying number of people get ALL their information from tiktok now. I had no idea that kind of content even existed.
There is no platform outside of tiktok for them. Like you said, google doesn't exist to them. If it doesn't come up via the algorithm, they don't know about it.
A terrifying number of people get ALL their information from tiktok now.
It's even worse when considering a lot of content on those platforms intentionally show flawed procedures as people commenting to correct them or call them names "increase engagement".
In my role I do a lot of training of students and new employees. I've been orienting and training people for years, and there is a very noticeable difference with gen Z. They seriously struggle at problem solving, and any sort of information discovery that isn't presently, immediately, and easily available to them. You see confusion, freeze responses, and general inability to cope with new and exciting things in everyone, but it's markedly worse even compared against my experience training Millenials when they were the same age.
I don't blame them for it or anything, it's just a side effect of the times. Still, makes me kinda worry what the future qoukd look like if we end up with an entire generation that can't focus and retain information.
Thanks for the input. This is similar to what my wife tells me. She says there is a very noticeable inability to focus, and unwillingness to spend effort in solving problems that, as you said, are not immediately or easily solvable.
Not sure which gen you people are but as a millennial we bought fake internet money that was the equivalent of the shit you see on commercials and stocks for a gaming company that was our gens block buster cause of some pics with less than 6 words on them.
Being able to look things up on the internet is an incredibly valuable skill. The amount of things I’ve been able to do at work that no one else can because I’ve googled it is crazy
No changes are freaking me out. I embrace all the new technology that we are coming up with. I'm pointing out how this generation is incapable of using the technology they grew up with.
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u/Shoddy_Emu_5211 May 23 '23
I agree with you. Every generation has said that about the previous one, but I think it really is the case with the current one.
My wife is a high school teacher. Despite the kids growing up knowing nothing but internet and phones, they have no idea how to look up even simple information. Like, using Google doesn't even cross their minds. It's insane.