Comment on Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do

AccidentalLemming@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• lea@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  1000011282

  source
• tb_@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One thing about this particular phenomenon that the article doesn’t take into account is that Gen Z is a lot more online than boomers are, hence they are exposed more often to the dangers it often.

  source

  • Sethayy@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And not even entirely by choice, a boomer - fairly well off financially - can reasonably spend years without touching the internet if they don’t work.

    Imma fail my classes if I don’t sign on once a day, and depressed as fuck in my apartment if I can’t even watch Netflix lmao

    source

    • phillaholic@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Good luck paying your rent without the internet too.

      source
  • wowbagger_@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Did you even read the article? That’s literally the first reason they give:

    There are a few theories that seem to come up again and again. First, Gen Z simply uses technology more than any other generation and is therefore more likely to be scammed via that technology.

    source

    • TheWoozy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Read the article? Gen-Z doesn’t read articles! /s

      source
    • Sethayy@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They acknowledge their bias but don’t account for it in their numbers, smells like statistics manipulation to me

      source
• waitmarks@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  new article in 10 years: Is gen alpha ruining the scam industry???

  source
• glockenspiel@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Skepticism is good. However, there is a lot of evidence that Gen Z is quite tech illiterate in general, but especially compared to the Millennial cohort. Colleges and universities have had to force Gen Z students into basically remedial computing courses just to teach them how file systems work and other simple-yet-taken-for-granted concepts work. Drop rates for CS degrees are climbing as Gen Z moves into higher education and hits a very difficult wall for them.

  And, in the end, that last bit was definitely another scam targeting their relative ignorance in the space. That is why so many “influencers”/scam artists target/targeted them with “career guides” or code boot camps or whatever. And I think that disillusionment is also part of the backlash against devs in general as “tech bros” despite very few devs actually working in the Valley for those companies under those conditions.

  source
• 1984@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s what media does - focuses on the differences between people instead of what’s common.

  source
• ohlaph@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s always the toast.

  source
• Angry_Maple@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I would love to see their sample group. Do their subjects share other aspects in common too, or do they just share a generation? Do they all have similar income? Do they all have similar access to the internet? Do they all have the same educational background? Do they use technology equally? Were the actual poll questions biast? What defines “scam” in this scenario? Who paid what as a result of these scams? Are they of the same political background? Are disabilities and minorities represented fairly across age groups? Was there any profit resulting from this poll? Do the participants all live similar lifestyles at home?

  I’m always suspicious when they don’t list these things. It can be very easy to create biased results.

  source