Current Events > Some people think zoomers are the new boomers. Do you agree?

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They are referring to zoomer puritan culture or their lack of abilities with technologies.

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They are on that hustle mindset. Well atleast a decent amount of my highschool alumni are like that. i see their tiktok posts lol

I guess that is boomerish.

Do you mean that 50 years from now, people not born yet, will make fun of zoomers and despise them?

Every time I hear either Zoomers or Millennials complain about Boomers, I chuckle. Because youth culture today is nearly identical in so many ways to the youth culture of the 60s. And most of the complaints about the Boomers are the exact same sorts of things the Boomers themselves were saying about their parents. All those old people ruined the planet, man! But we're going to be the ones who fix it all!

Which is why I generally assume most of the people whining about Boomers today and going to grow up to be failures and embittered fucks who do far more harm to the world than good, just like the Boomers did. And the generations that come after them are going to hate them.

dolomedes posted...

nah the zoomers are our only hope tbh

In that case we're utterly and truly fucked.

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That's what they used to say about millennials, and Xers, and even boomers...

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Which is why I generally assume most of the people whining about Boomers today and going to grow up to be failures and embittered fucks who do far more harm to the world than good

Christ lol tell us your real feelings why don't you.

Obviously its millennials that are tied up with boomers. Though Id say its really the young boomers vs the elder millennials. Older boomers at this point are mid 70s.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Every time I hear either Zoomers or Millennials complain about Boomers, I chuckle. Because youth culture today is nearly identical in so many ways to the youth culture of the 60s. And most of the complaints about the Boomers are the exact same sorts of things the Boomers themselves were saying about their parents. All those old people ruined the planet, man! But we're going to be the ones who fix it all!

Which is why I generally assume most of the people whining about Boomers today and going to grow up to be failures and embittered fucks who do far more harm to the world than good, just like the Boomers did. And the generations that come after them are going to hate them.

This.

It's basically history repeating itself.

Zoomers aren't big enough to do all that much on their own. They're another irrelevant gen like X.

Boomers can be funny though

Lmao no. My dad is a boomer and he's hopeless when it comes to tech. Zoomers can at least learn.

Were_Wyrm posted...

That's what they used to say about millennials, and Xers, and even boomers...

This time it'll be different!

Pls be different

alphagamble posted...

Boomers can be funny though

so can zoomers

I hope I never become the type of person to talk about boomers and zoomers.

dolomedes posted...

nah the zoomers are our only hope tbh

Our only hope is the children of true GenXer's.

My kids are both Zoomers and no, I dont think so.

The economic differences between the generations is too great for them to end up similarly.

NoxObscuras posted...

Lmao no. My dad is a boomer and he's hopeless when it comes to tech. Zoomers can at least learn.

For now, sure. But Boomers were fine learning new tech and adapting to new ideas (and innovating themselves) when they were younger. It's really only getting older and slowly calcifying that kind of takes that skill away. And it happens to literally everyone. Gen X is sort of in the middle of it now - the same kids who had to set the clock on the VCR for their parents or help set up the household PC are now having trouble figuring out how to use their phones.

40 years from now the next younger generation will be complaining that their Zoomer parents don't know how to calibrate their neural net helmets or can't work the teleporter right or whatever it is that's cutting edge by then.

Again, sure, Boomers are going to suck if you're comparing them NOW to Zoomers today. But what you really need to do is look at the Boomers when they were young. Basically, what they were like in the 60s.

And when you do that, they basically just look and act like Zoomers. Just with worse fashion sense but better music.

My boomer dad learned how to use those ancient late 60s or early 70s computers that took up a room and you put data cards into them. He took a college class and a decade later they were obsolete. He was really mad and never put much effort into learning modern computers

What does that even mean lol

This is just another millennials hating on gen z topic isn't it

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Every time I hear either Zoomers or Millennials complain about Boomers, I chuckle. Because youth culture today is nearly identical in so many ways to the youth culture of the 60s. And most of the complaints about the Boomers are the exact same sorts of things the Boomers themselves were saying about their parents. All those old people ruined the planet, man! But we're going to be the ones who fix it all!

Which is why I generally assume most of the people whining about Boomers today and going to grow up to be failures and embittered fucks who do far more harm to the world than good, just like the Boomers did. And the generations that come after them are going to hate them.

Like Lupe said on Old School Love, "I know it's all a cycle and everybody bike it".

Tappor posted...

What does that even mean lol

This is just another millennials hating on gen z topic isn't it

No. I just keep seeing people saying that on social medias. But I am not even sure what exactly they are referring to aside from the technology thing

I have met zoomers that are computer illiterate

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Not really. They will take advantage of the housing market crash that's starting to happen

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The older ones? Yeah sure, but the ones that are still kids ot teens. I am not so sure about that

All y'all motherfuckers are doing the exactly same thing you hated your parents doing, lmao

There is nothing wrong with the kids, you're just getting old.

They have a severe lack of technological literacy. They are equivalent with boomers in that regard

There's some amount of truth here. The apple landscape has really removed the tech knowledge from using the tech, so they do start from a lower place than my generation did.

And the puritan thing has some truth as well. A lot of what I learned was to listen to people and assess harm when harm is conveyed. Not to prejudge any relationship without direct evidence of harm. Just because something is icky to you, doesn't mean it is inherently harmful. This is sort of the ground work that has made it more possible for the LGBT communities to not be so insular.

And this generation has kind of swung back in the other direction where harm is always assumed given certain conditions. Usually given whatever flavor of the month buzz word is floating around. If I have to hear about how some 40 year old celebrity is a groomer for dating somebody that is 28 one more time, I think my eyes will roll all the way around.

Didn't they just come out in force to shut the boomers down in that vote?

COVxy posted...

There's some amount of truth here. The apple landscape has really removed the tech knowledge from using the tech, so they do start from a lower place than my generation did.

And the puritan thing has some truth as well. A lot of what I learned was to listen to people and assess harm when harm is conveyed. Not to prejudge any relationship without direct evidence of harm. Just because something is icky to you, doesn't mean it is inherently harmful. This is sort of the ground work that has made it more possible for the LGBT communities to not be so insular.

And this generation has kind of swung back in the other direction where harm is always assumed given certain conditions. Usually given whatever flavor of the month buzz word is floating around. If I have to hear about how some 40 year old celebrity is a groomer for dating somebody that is 28 one more time, I think my eyes will roll all the way around.

I personally cringe when it happens, but could it be just that some 13 years old has no concept of nuance yet due to their youth and just compare the difference with their direct age?

epik_fail1 posted...

no concept of nuance

This has become endemic.

SiO4 posted...

This has become endemic.

You got a point... it's not only the kids who are guilty of this.

I don't agree with any generalizations. Generalizations are for stupid people to simplify the world and make ot easier for them to digest. I don't even agree with my own generalizations when make them. They're just emotionally driven moments

NoxObscuras posted...

Lmao no. My dad is a boomer and he's hopeless when it comes to tech. Zoomers can at least learn.

Zoomers are a generation of people who can't tech. They grew up with IPads & Android phones and most of them don't know how to operate a computer. If there isn't an app for it, they can't do the task.

bo_danvers posted...

Zoomers are a generation of people who can't tech. They grew up with IPads & Android phones and most of them don't know how to operate a computer. If there isn't an app for it, they can't do the task.

"Millennials are the generation of people who can't spell or write by hand. If there isn't a spellchecker or a keyboard they can't do that task."

See how that criticism is both valid and also completely irrelevant? It does not matter one fuck if zoomers aren't super fluent at Microsoft word. The world has moved on past the point where people need a specialist education in office apps in order to be able to do an office job competently.

pinky0926 posted...

The world has moved on past the point where people need a specialist education in office apps in order to be able to do an office job competently.

The fuck it has. Not that MSWord should be considered specialist.

Guide posted...

The fuck it has. Not that MSWord should be considered specialist.

Apps are so ridiculously easy to use now that most of the training you used to need can now be resolved by pressing buttons.

E.g. most of the formulas that people use in excel are now handled by in-built functions. Press a button, get a sum to happen.

We also have an endless font of information on the internet. If I need to do a thing in an office app, I google it. Zoomers are no different.

When there is a need for training, the requirement is ridiculously overblown. Give a zoomer a week with an app like this and they'll be better than you by the end of it.

The kids are fine.

Never heard of them being bad at tech. Most the ones I've met don't seem to be that way.

My youngest brother knew how to use a computer better than my dad before he learned how to read.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Every time I hear either Zoomers or Millennials complain about Boomers, I chuckle. Because youth culture today is nearly identical in so many ways to the youth culture of the 60s. And most of the complaints about the Boomers are the exact same sorts of things the Boomers themselves were saying about their parents. All those old people ruined the planet, man! But we're going to be the ones who fix it all!

Which is why I generally assume most of the people whining about Boomers today and going to grow up to be failures and embittered fucks who do far more harm to the world than good, just like the Boomers did. And the generations that come after them are going to hate them.

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