• @[email protected]
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    366 months ago

    It seems so absurd to me this could happen. For the boomers I understand, they grew up in an offline world, but the youth? They are raised on the modern web and smartphones but are often clueless too.

    Was it the unsanitized, wild west internet era of the late 90s/early 2000s that hardened the millennials against online bullshitting?

    • @benignintervention
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      166 months ago

      Now that I’m thinking about the good old days of virus pop-ups and limewire cancers, has the presence of malware changed that much? Or it is less visible due to mobile architecture and pop-up blockers?

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      126 months ago

      It sure feels that way, explaining to kids that YouTubers will say anything to get you to keep watching, meanwhile the elderly are following Qanon bullshit.

    • @Agrivar
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      16 months ago

      You think millennials are immune to it? I feel like it’s only Gen-X that’s both cynical enough and was here for the birth of it, to be properly skeptical of everything online.