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Could this be a case of gen z having a larger online presence than boomers? Kind of like how people from Florida are more likely to be attacked by sharks than someone from Kansas?
Edit: I somehow missed this on the first pass.
The amount of older people having an online presence is ever increasing. And I hope the percentages mean "% of the generation members with an online presence".
whats the importance of that distinction when the entirety of gen z is online.
Computer literacy needs to be a subject treated like math and science in school. It shouldn't just be one class that older students take one year, but a class that is taken every year and escalates to more advanced topics as they get older.
And if there's no space in the schedule, then cut back on the science classes. Who even remembers anything they learned in middle school science? Learning about sedimentary rocks and cumulonimbus clouds never helped me, personally.
Gen Z spends more than twice the amount of time on social media than boomers, and most scams are done on social media, but older people are usually easier and more lucrative targets, so it's hard to say.
Even beyond that, we're talking a group that has become a monetary target only in the last few years VS groups that have been larger targets for 20 to 30 years. A percentage of people in older generations have either learned from past experience or have had their "keys" taken away in a way young adults fundamentally can't have.