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.

  • ieightpi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    1 year ago

    Maybe it’s just a wisdom kind of thing? Gen Z is still young and learning the ropes of adult life. Boomers have more years on them to learn what is or isn’t a scam.

    • deft@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      271·
      1 year ago

      I don’t think so. I heard Millennials are the best with this stuff making us the outlier because we grew up in an age of constant tech advancement and during a time when a lot of things weren’t totally consumer friendly yet so we had to problem solve tech a lot.

      Pirating played a big role in this with limewire and stuff but so did Xanga, Myspace and Tumblr having you learn basic coding to make shit cool.

      The article could rather flip and say Millennials don’t fall for scams like everyone else does. They grew up with the Internet but we pioneered it.

      • ohlaph@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        Exactly. I’m a millennial and had to troubleshoot a lot for my boomer parents and gen x siblings.

        Although I work in tech now, I didn’t until my third career.

      • gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        also add that we, millennials, grew up with the common knowledge that internet is a wild place, never give out your personal data, credit card numbers or personal photos. Gen-z grew up in a world that they needed to purposefully upload their whole life on the cloud.

      • phillaholic@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        I’ve felt the same. Millennials with tech and the silent generation / early boomers all seem to be much better with mechanical things like cars. Growing up having to troubleshoot is big.

      • EngineerGaming@feddit.nlEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        idk, here piracy is still very prevalent with all generations and doesn’t seem like it impacts scammability.

        • deft@ttrpg.networkEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          Piracy has become kind of easier and standard. I haven’t checked but I bet there is a discord and youtube community about pirating. That didn’t exist. I learned about torrenting from an online friend through Maplestory. Limewire was a thing some kid at school told you about. And we all got viruses doing it.

          It felt like you had to know a guy to know anything. Now you can just google and the communities for pirating are massive now.