First of all, I don’t mean this post as a complaint, maybe more of a warning?

There is teenagers on the fediverse. Most of them don’t share their age, for hopefully obvious reasons. I’d say that a lot of the accounts which do a lot of posting/commenting are run by teenagers — because most adults probably wouldn’t have the time for that much posting.

While the young people of this generation are generally useless when it comes to something more complicated than microsoft word, the people who are good at technology, usually are very good at it.

most of my friends (most of which don’t know the difference between a laptop and a desktop) could understand the fediverse as a concept perfectly when I explained it to them irl.

So, if you’re in a really stupid argument with someone, try to remember that there is a small chance they are 14.

  • recall519@lemm.eeEnglish
    71·
    2 months ago

    I was smarter than the rest of you all when I was a teen. It wasn’t until I became an adult did I get this stupid.

    • SirQuack@feddit.nlEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Hey, fuck you for calling adults stupid. Some of us have been stupid the whole time! Edit: /s

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        No, we’ve definitely gotten dumber as time has gone on. Especially socially; interpersonal skills have basically vanished since I was in high school.

  • Lemminary@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    Some are easy to spot because they don’t understand that being apologetic has little to do with apologizing, for example. 😅

  • satans_methpipe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    95·
    2 months ago

    While the young people of this generation are generally useless when it comes to something more complicated than microsoft word

    Generalizations and eager bootlicking of generational propaganda isn’t helpful at all.

  • Fleur_@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
    91·
    2 months ago

    WHAT!!!??

    TEENAGERS??

    ONLINE???

    Brooo I had no idea… how could this happen? I never would’ve guessed there could be teenagers despite at one point being one and using the internet. I get you’re probably pretty new to being online but like come on, the rest of the world doesn’t discover things at the rate you do…

  • Darkmoon_UK@lemm.eeEnglish
    91·
    2 months ago

    It should not be that surprising. Many teenagers are really smart, curious and will find their way here. That said I realise your warning is well intentioned; I hope Lemmy remains a more civil place than Reddit became over the last ten years, for everyone; teenagers included.

  • Kane@femboys.bizEnglish
    131·
    2 months ago

    Maybe, but I was on the internet as a teen and that went fine, being careful is a general thing in life.

    But more importantly: adults have a phone and use it during work ALL the time. So I’m not so sure about the average age of the people commenting on here.

  • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    91·
    2 months ago

    But don’t assume everyone who is very active is a teenagers.

    Some of us aren’t ;).

    And you don’t have to understand federation to use lemmy. I’ve brought a couple of gen-z ers here. Get them to download voyager. Voyger automatically suggests lemm.ee for account creation. And then you just use it like reddit. Super simple.

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    While the young people of this generation are generally useless when it comes to something more complicated than microsoft word, the people who are good at technology, usually are very good at it.

    “Young people bad!” This paragraph has nothing to do with the rest of the post.