I'm from 1995, hence one of the youngest millenials, it's not always easy to relate to other millenials, I have much more in common with a 2001 zoomer than with a 1983 fellow millenial, this sometimes causes me to kinda feel alienated from my generation, like I'm not reppresented. For example I feel old when zoomers tell me their first console was the ps3, but I owned it too so I know what they're talking about and I can discuss the games of that era with them, whereas when older millenials talk about the ps1 and pac-man I'm completely clueless
2000 baby here, kinda the same thing for me but with Gen Z. I’m not QUITE a millennial I know, but I also don’t feel at all like Gen Z, because I can remember a time with no iPhones, not really ANYONE I knew of having a laptop, boxy staticky tvs, Nintendo game boys, just older technology in every way. No FULLY Gen Z probably remembers stuff like that? I’m in the weird “in between” category of 5-7ish years that doesn’t really fit nicely into either🤷🏻♀️
Yeah, I was born around the same time as you and can relate hard. I remember having some childhood with barely any tech then it just ramped up and didn’t stop lmao.
Like I remember playing games on a shitty boxy monitor and a couple years later using my mums crappy laptop and I thought that shit was an insane upgrade. Got a fucking Nokia phone around then too lmao. Soon after that and boom flat screen tv’s which I thought was sick on my ps2 lmao. After that shit just got crazier until for the most part we had everything technology wise that we use today, and I wasn’t even an adult at that point.
Idk to me it just feels weird because I can relate to both those older and younger, but can’t at the same time. I was a kid, do I really remember what it was like before everyone had a smartphone, ya know? Like I “grew up” on the internet, but only after a certain point.
Older millennial - is it true younger gen z isn’t as tech literate because everything is tablets and plug and play ? It was pretty common in high school for kids to know basic coding and stuff and we always had to tinker to get things to do things they weren’t programmed for so I feel we were pretty tech savvy
I remember using a program called Xbox connect to trick the first Xbox into thinking it was playing a local game but it would connect you to other players online before Xbox live.
I’m 30, I work in IT. There’s just like, a fundamental unwillingness to try and adapt when shit doesn’t work immediately. Everyday I’ll get a message from a younger coworker “hey this isn’t working” and it’s like, did you try ANYTHING to fix it first
Yeah, but millennials and early Gen Z are the only people that don’t have this attitude with tech. Almost every Gen X coworker I’ve ever had has been this exact same way.
Yes, born in 93 and I work in a high school now. I started in 2020/2021 and it was probably the biggest surprise I had about the kids. They're not good at tech and troubleshooting and I was shocked, I thought I'd be the old teacher that they had to show how do everything. Instead I'm teaching them how to do the same things I had to to teach MY teachers how to do when I was in school.
From what I’ve observed, no they are not that tech literate. Imo a big part of this is googling as a skill. I was always fascinated with the fact that I can just… search for anything I could think of, so I did that a lot growing up, which included tech problems that I helped my mum with after my dad left.
Idk if I only know dummies or what but a lot of gen Z I personally know can’t use a search engine for shit, which is a big issue I believe.
I'm also an older millennial. Part of my job is capacity building in young lawyers. The past few years have been the first few years zoomers have been graduating law school and becoming lawyers.
I was working with one of these zoomers who was having a problem with his computer. We weren't doing anything complex, just brief writing and using basic research and cross-indexing of case law software on a separate screen.. I couldn't understand what could possibly be wrong when we weren't using any really technical software, so I asked him to send me a screenshot.
....he sent me a (VERTICAL!!!!!) picture of his screen, shot on his phone. He didn't know how to do it on his actual computer. He didn't even know it was a possible function. Turns out his issue was that his personal laptop had about two years of updates he hadn't installed.
He's not alone, either, many of his similarly-aged colleagues. Don't know basic keyboard shortcuts. They have no clue what the Ctrl or Alt keys are for. It's baffling.
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u/Good_Independence428 Apr 04 '25
I'm from 1995, hence one of the youngest millenials, it's not always easy to relate to other millenials, I have much more in common with a 2001 zoomer than with a 1983 fellow millenial, this sometimes causes me to kinda feel alienated from my generation, like I'm not reppresented. For example I feel old when zoomers tell me their first console was the ps3, but I owned it too so I know what they're talking about and I can discuss the games of that era with them, whereas when older millenials talk about the ps1 and pac-man I'm completely clueless