I knew it: young adults who spend all their time with tech generally have no idea how to use tech.
http://time.com/3844483/millennials-secrets/
>millenials overwhelmingly don't know how to compose emails, use Excel, or even Google search correctly
>they have a hard time understanding anything that isn't tapping a button in an app
WOW
People have a hard time doing things they're not familar with!
STOP THE FUCKING PRESSES!
Who the fuck had to use spreadshits extensively while growing up ?
And the whole email part is confusing me.
Is it saying that the new generation can't write a letter ?
Or click "send email" instead of the "send email" equivalent icon ?
>>47836340
YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE PREPARED FOR ANY JOB THAT YOU CAN POSSIBLY GET IN THE US OF A
MAYBE YOU CAN COME OVER AT SERVICENOW AND WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO AUTOMATE YOUR MUNDANE TASKS
>>47836340
Fuckers spend all day with their iPhone in their hands and 99% of them will never learn to do anything meaningful with it, either.
used to be no locked bootloaders and hardware was generally tinkerable
>>47836404
they will change the world for liking Kony 2016 though
>>47836404
Nothing has changed.
Most people have never needed a computer for all of recorded history.
Even today, most people still don't need a computer when all they ever do with their phone is consume media and facebook.
Tech literates and tinkerers were always, and always will be a minority.
>>47836404
yup
most kids are just as retarded as any other generation
>>47836418
I forgot about kony 2012 once the world stopped giving a shit a few weeks after it was a thing.
>>47836404
>doing anything meaningful with an iPhone
>>47836455
This. Young people only acquired a reputation for being natural computer whizzes because computer savvy young people were the first to adopt personal computing.
Kids nowadays are consumers, not producers. They wait for things to happen to them, instead of being the one doing those things.
>>47836202
Yes and you all can THANK APPLE for the simplicity and obfuscation to allow every dumbass to use the technology.
>>47836375
I had a class on excel, powerpoint, and internet use in elementary school, and i'm 20. I thought everyone did this?
>>47836202
>lol
>people who have never been taught how to use $software are shit at using $software
>fucken retards
>>47836202
>One study of college students found that only seven out of 30 knew how to conduct a “well-executed” Google search.
curious as to what the definition of a 'well-executed search' is here
>>47836202
excel is useless for hacking into gibsons faggot
>>47836404
>iPhone
>meaningful
>productive
hahaha
no.
>Generation X doesn't know how to install a new engine in their car despite driving everywhere!
At least it confirms that IT is going nowhere and everyone's jobs are effectively secure.
>>47837027
using more than 1 boolean operator maybe?
There isn't a whole lot to google searches other than looking for "specific phrases" NEAR keywords at site:whatever.com
>>47837015
Of course, I did too. That really wasn't "extensive" though.
Especially with what you can actually achieve in Office nowadays.
>>47837027
I can find anything on google just through clever terminology. there is no need to do any fancy search techniques.
>>47837046
who the fuck uses google anymore?
>>47836202
>journalist still don't know/care to cite their sources.
>About 1 in 52 journalist don't do this
>>47837045
>Implying my company didn't just halve its staff, outsourcing to india
>>47837057
everyone who isn't autistic like you
>>47836986
>Kids nowadays
I bet you're fucking 24. Shut up.
>>47837027cupcake memes, OR ebaumsworld "life has no meaning." site:boards.4chan.org/g/
for example.
idiots do it like thiswww.fagbook.com
or they put in their search in form of a question instead of searching for keywords.
The easier something gets the less you need to know about how it works to use it, when everything is automated nobody will know anything.
>>47837089
>or they put in their search in form of a question instead of searching for keywords.
I sometimes do that because the "corpus" of human-made questions in forums is huge.
>>47837009
Taking technology and making it palatable for the average consumer is perhaps the most cash-cow scheme ever devised. It's shekel paradise dear goyim.
>>47837027
Probably a set of keywords rather than a sentence
"Find a restaurant that serves Italian food that isn't expensive" vs
"restaurant italian inexpensive"
The problem is that google switched their engine to fit what most people typed; natural language processing. Keyword search is either the same, or sometimes even worse than natural language.
>>47837129
I noticed this too
My typical searches are
find 12 year old sluts from italy who want to have sex with american men for money
sex tourism in thailand, curing aids babies in africa
All this smartphone/tablet shit feels like such a fucking fad, to be honest.
Every advert is like
>ooh look you can do this
>and this, that's right, these things add so little to your life that we need to tell you why you need them in your life!
Cue the mantric ukelele playing, hand clapping window licking bullshit.
It's like the technology market has become so saturated that it's exceeded its very necessity
Fuck this earth
>>47837285
and it's all shit you can already do but now on a phone kinda-sorta omg
most humans are not inclined toward problem-solving of the technical nature.
our brains are made mostly for socializing; we effectively have to repurpose and reengineer our connectome to be competent at problem solving in anything that isn't figuring out and responding to the emotions of others.
unless they're having their hand-held until they commit the fundamentals to rote, most people will not pick up technical skills on their own.
>>47837276
>curing aids babies in africa
Why would anyone do that?
Not to be a jew, but I really hope that in the future having basic understanding about how this stuff works and how to go about getting it fixed, even just knowing what to buy to accomplish X, will be able to make me a comfortable living.
>>47836202
fuck Time has gone down the toilet. awful clickbait.
>>47836202
Can someone post that one stallman approved article about UX (user experience)?
>>47837316
>our brains are made mostly for socializing; we effectively have to repurpose and reengineer our connectome to be competent at problem solving in anything that isn't figuring out and responding to the emotions of others.
i'm the exact opposite
>>47836202
yeah no shit op, whats next? waters wet?
most people who live in houses have no idea how or where to begin making one. same thing can be said of cars. so why something like people being tech illiterate would be a surprise or why someone would write an article about it is the real shock, shock that yous a dope that would think otherwise and needed an article to base theys dopey beliefs on.
>>47837324
Probably something about imported pussy.
>>47837360
>nigger pussy
Dude...
>>47837394
I wasn't the OP.
But there is South Africa, you know.
>One study of college students found that only seven out of 30 knew how to conduct a “well-executed” Google search.
Sample size of thirty, likely from one college, many probably freshmen. Gr8 research.
>these kids are bad at using technology they haven't used yet!
Wow no shit. If you want them to be proficient in Excel and Outlook then put that as a requirement and ask about it in the interview.
By the way, the one article they "cited" (https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/08/22/erial_study_of_student_research_habits_at_illinois_university_libraries_reveals_alarmingly_poor_information_literacy_and_skills) is from 2011.
>>47836202
>This Is Millennials’ Most Embarrassing Secret
Wow, Time has a click-bait title for a click-bait tier article. Stop the fucking presses. No actually, start them back up so we can escape this drudgery called "online news".
>>47836202
That explains why I'm so godamn stupid.
I am always on the Internet but am too lazy to learn even though I have a whole plethora of knowledge in front of me.
I think it's due to how overwhelming it is. I want to draw. Learn music. Learn at khan Academy. Learn to socialize learn how to cook learn how to change my voice.
Yet Im so fucking overwhelmed.
HELP.
>stereotyping jews is not okay
>stereotyping a generation is okay, though
Baby boomers everyone
>>47837460
>learn how to change my voice
tranny pls go
>>47837460
literally just sit your ass down and do one for a couple hours
>>47837481
>stereotyping jews is not okay
Is that so? Why I keep doing so then?
>>47837460
just quit looking at it as this huge insurmountable task.
teaching yourself calculus on khan academy sounds hard, but it's not hard to commit to looking at one video and doing one exercise a day. if you do that simple task every day for a year, you would literally go through khan academy's entire catalog of math exercises from counting to partial differential equations.
>>47837496
But I end up at 4chan all the time just to see what you guys are doing.
>>47837500
How about your dick? Do you have a girly cock too?
>>47837500
post butt
>excel
>Microsoft
>gui
>>47837506
Thanks anon.
>>47837520
Hide the balls if you do so.
>>47837532
but that's the best part...
I worked in tech support for a MAJOR cell company for many years. I was shocked to learn how many 16 to 22 year olds had no hardware technical knowledge. They were very familiar with apps but were floored with doing something as unimaginable as removing a battery from an Android phone (99% of most technical fixes, frozen etc) It would turn into a ten minute fiasco just for them to comprehend what a battery is. I had a lot of them call completely baffled as to why their new cell phones were dead and then learn that they had to actually charge them. "What's a power cord? You mean I have to plug it into the wall?"
>>47837500
your face looks like it's been blown out with a fisheye lens
>>47837500
I'd suck yours.
>>47837557
>"What's a power cord? You mean I have to plug it into the wall?"
This didn't happen.
What kind of 16 year old has never plugged anything into a wall?
Does your company only hire 3rd world slave children?
>>47836202
Isn't this common knowledge?
>>47837583
I knew someone like that when I was younger, but it was over 10 years ago. He was 16 and didn't know how to plug things in or even hook his Playstation up to his tv because his parents or older brother always did it for him.
>>47837583
kids just poke everything as if it's a touchscreen look like goddamn monkeys
>>47837625
To be fair, everything is a touchscreen these days, it's not often when you tap a screen and it's not actually a touch-screen.
>>47837571
got a boner when i saw this
if you are really a male i'd suck you off and lick your butthole no problem
i'm straight too
all I do when I google is -subtract and site: and rarely filetype: and inurl:
I don't know any other fancy tricks
but yeah i'm sick of hearing about how millennials are good with computers when in reality boomers are just mentally retarded and cant handle change
>the UI is literally designed for the lowest common denominator
>IT'S TOO HARD I HATE TECHNOLOGY
>>47837645
quoted wrong post, meant >>47837500
>>47837645
I wonder how many poor anons here have fallen for the veil of IRL traps and walked out on a tranny escort after realizing how ugly they look IRL.
>>47837671
I'd fug him in the bug anon
he looks fem af
>>47837689
You're in love with a picture.
He's not that fem irl.
>>47837693
paper bag
>>47837693
I actually am that feminine.
If you want post your kik or akype and Ill show you more.
I-if you want.
>>47837638
i am 22 and with a modest handful of change and my millenial "fuck-you-i-can-do-it-without-the-manual" i am going to build a budget gaming pc for ~$650-700
any suggestions for a gpu similar or better than a radeon r7 260x that is within the same price range? any and all suggestions appreciated.
>>47836340
that is the literal opposite of the articles point
they are familiar with all this shit and yet know nothing about it
>>47837015
mandatory webdev in 5th grade
i ain't even indian
>>47837055
could you do me a favor and find me a copy of deadlands fire and brimstone?
>>47837316
testosterone makes you mechanically inclined, even as an infant
are you a woman?
>>47837041
Wat. That analogy is poor.
>Memeposter doesn't know how to make an analogy despite typing WORDS in the English language!
The disparity in technical skill between consuming media and performing a google search is much smaller than driving a car and installing an engine.
A more appropriate analogy would be:
>Generation X doesn't know how to use the turn signal despite driving everywhere!
>>47837712
we can talk here bby
now post feet
This is where I find computer usage analysis dumb.
People using the computer aren't "using the computer".
They are doing whatever people did 20 years ago, the computer has just taken it over as a technical medium.
>chatting on skype, etc
Talking on the phone.
>listening to music
Listening to CDs/gramophone discs.
>watching youtube
Watching shitty television.
They haven't changed what people are doing. People are just doing it on different devices.
Using a computer today doesn't make you super computer literate just like using the phone didn't make you a telecommunications engineer in the mid 80s.
>>47837367
>that picture
my parents aren't so bad that they're googling Google, but almost everything else hits home way too hard
>>47837671
>he literally says "make me her slave"
>and then doesn't like it
I don't think I can actually feel bad for this guy. Words have a specific meaning, and at no point did he say to stop according to the post.
if he wanted hot trap sex, he should have just stuck with what happens in his doujins
>>47837557
>It would turn into a ten minute fiasco just for them to comprehend what a battery is. I had a lot of them call completely baffled as to why their new cell phones were dead and then learn that they had to actually charge them.
is this going to be the state of this fall's college freshmen
like, last year's batch was kind of dumb, and now I'm really worried
I think it is great that computer savy now means being able to sign up for twitter with a fake name.
I also think it is great that we stopped parenting poor kids so middle class kids can get ahead.
Who cares if we leave the stupid behind?
If they can't figure out things on their own then they deserve to be left behind.
Since we can't legally kill the retards we can force them into poverty and stupidity and they won't even care since we have enough movies, video games and mongolian cave paintings to last a life time.
It might hinder scientific research as things that doesn't directly makes average people "feel better" is now seen as irrelevant and hard to get funding for.
So now we have engineers who graduate in game maker and office workers who cannot use excel. Is it really that much of a shock to you people?
>>47837790
Nope
Thank you "App" generation!
>>47837790
ebin
>>47837721
>i am 22 and with a modest handful of change and my millenial "fuck-you-i-can-do-it-without-the-manual" i am going to build a budget gaming pc
this is bait right?
>literally being the fgts discussed in the OP
>>47837671
Why didn't he specify a safe word before hand?
>>47837721
you're 22 and don't have random shit lying around already?
shit nigga i grew out of building pc's when i was 17
>>47837811
>Why didn't he specify a safe word before hand?
He's inexperienced?
>>47837811
Slaves don't get safewords
>>47837809
>>47837823
At least he is actually doing something unlike 99.99% of the population.
They're all dicking around on social media right now
>>47837824
I post on /g/ and even I know you should have a safe word
>>47837348
you have autism. congrats
> a “well-executed” Google search.
what's that?
>>47837845
slaves don't get safewords
>>47837809
i was born in 92 and was on windows95 and freddy fish nigga i have been around the block so to speak
>millennial "fuck-you-i-can-do-it-without-the-manual"
i fried the battery on my vaio and i need something to better play d3 and watch porn. what's your issue, bud?
>in cs
>some guy is doing a presentation about his variation of the exercise we were given.
>he struggles with plugging in the projector because macbook.
>finally gives up letting OSX guess a correct resolution and goes 640x480
>his font size is too small so nobody can see his code
>spends a minute trying to fix it but fails
>gives up and loads Ubuntu in a VM
>now we can see the code
>program is starting with printing "hello world"
>uses silly and incorrect variable names for what they are used for.
>code is indented with spaces and tabs all jumbled together.
Fuck this gay earth.
>>47837741
Wow you managed to create an even worse analogy, good job
>>47837015
I did too and had to relearn in college
>>47837931
>code is indented with spaces and tabs all jumbled together.
Holy shit.
>>47837892
>i fried the battery on my vaio
u fokn wot m8
>posts in a thread about millennial not knowing how to google
>is a millennial - doesn't know how to google
>posting gpu questions in a thread about millenials not knowing how to google
You haven't put any effort into your problem, why should anyone else?
cant believe i 8 the b8
>
We're the same age.
>>47837931
what year?
>>47837671
>tfw my comment made it in the picture
>>47837932
>Wow you managed to create an even worse analogy, good job
You must be at least 18 years old to post on this board. Reported.
>>47838085
reported for reporting
>>47837410
Related?
>>47838031
i don't have a problem except for you and some other random poster.
i just asked if someone had a better suggestion/experience than with gpu i plan to buy for a build.
i posted in this thread because i was reading it and i hoped there would be people on /g/ who discuss relevant technology.
maybe i was mistaken
>>47838231
> i am going to build a budget gaming pc
> i need something to better play d3 and watch porn
> i hoped there would be people on /g/ who discuss relevant technology
kek. You missed the SQT bruh
>>47837671
>iKek'd
>>47838231
Wow Reddit!
>>47838335
well memed, friend.
>>47838321
>implying i ever cared about stickies even when faggot moot was around
Think of all of the faggots in this thread who can't cook, drive manual transmission, or wire-wrap their own microprocessor board.
>>47838441
Sorry I'm not poor like you anon
>>47838376
>>implying i ever cared about stickies even when faggot moot was around
what the fuck are you talking about?
>>47836202
>People are stupid
News flash
You know, bitching about the problem doesn't solve the problem, if anything, makes it worse.
If you see a problem, fix it. That simple.
>Alright applefags, put down your ishits and pay attention.
On second thought... some of you ought never be let around the public, let alone a computer.
>>47836202
>blah blah blah goddamned lazy and stupid millenials blah blah ruining the private sector blah moral decay blah blah degeneracy blah if only kids these days blah blah blah more like their parents blah blah back in my day blah blah uphill both ways blah learn some respect blah blah fucking liberals blah blah if they had a real job blah work for a living blah blah responsibility blah blah blah blah blah
>>>/pol/
>>47838462
FUCK ALL THESE KIDS WHO STARE AT THEIR SMARTPHONES ALL DAY AND CAN'T PROGRAM FIZZBUZZ.
>try hand assembling fizzbuzz in under 60 bytes and directly inputting them with toggle switches.
lol, u poor.
>>47838441
Not everyone needs to do everything. I bet you can't cut a dovetail, don't use Solidworks and wouldn't know what to do with a gauge block.
>>47837583
Yeah, actually it happened many many times. They assumed that cell phones never had to be charged. The most technically savvy people were the 80 year old WWII tank operators who usually called about their bills. Most dummies under twenty couldn't locate the power button on their iphones.
>"Does your company only hire 3rd world slave children?"
How would that statement have anything to do with twenty-something human turnips?
http://coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-computers/
>>47838815
Did they feel stupid afterwards or did they look at you weird for suggesting that phones don't actually run on magic?
This has to be some kind of isolated incident, most people have enough sense not to ask such stupid questions.
>>47837735
"deadlands' fire and brimstone pdf" on ixquick first page result at 2shared
