The generation that grew up with the internet isn’t invulnerable to becoming the victim of online hackers and scammers.

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.

  • Zelda Goats @lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    Generation X forgotten once again. Whatever.

    (It was kind of expected at the time that the Millennials would be named Generation Y because they followed us, but that name never took hold. So they skipped Y and went straight on to Z, then continued with A.)

    • Jesus_666@feddit.deEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Amusingly, your post forgets either the Millennials or Generation Z.

      Gen Y are the Millennials and Gen Z are the Zoomers, which sounds more like a street gang from a Silver Age comic that it has any right to. Millennials and Zoomers tend to get conflated just like Boomers and Gen X do but they are distinct.

      If you were born before the early 80s or after the mid-90s you are not a Millennial, you’re a Gen Xer or a Zoomer. Generation Alpha are typically the kids of Millennials and some of them are starting to enter puberty already.

      Basically, you can divide generations Y and Z by whether they have any clear memories of before 9/11.

    • Z3k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      It wouldn’t be so bad but when they do remember us it’s to lump us in with our parents

      • Zelda Goats @lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        This right here. More poignantly perhaps since the Boomers (not everyone in that age group, obviously) ruined Gen X lives first, before they destroyed the futures of subsequent generations, so we’ve been watching this dumpster fire for decades and warning about how bad it could become.

        What might be unique to X-ers is that we witnessed the social fabric in the U.S. falling apart in the 80’s under Reagan–when the likelihood of a blue-collar worker having a solid career at a good company for life, supporting a family on one income, and being able to retire without living in poverty went from being a common thing to more of a lost dream.

        So yes, to be lumped in with the same generation that pulled the rug out from under us is adding insult to injury.