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Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do (www.vox.com)

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Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do::The generation that grew up with the internet isn’t invulnerable to becoming the victim of online hackers and scammers.

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[-] akwd169@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 9 months ago

I imagine it has more to do with phones being the most common and main way GenZ becomes familiar with tech, with which you mostly just open an app and it knows which files and where they are, presenting them in a way that skips the whole file/directory experience for 95% of use cases

[-] max@feddit.nl 2 points 9 months ago

It’s definitely that, yeah. I just wonder how it’ll go once (if?) they have to use a computer at work later.

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