My wife and I started talking about this after she had to help an old lady at the DMV figure out how to use her iPhone to scan a QR code. We’re in our early 40s.

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      Yeah I have worked for two different apps in customer service and I end up talking to teens and people in their early 20’s- who are just as bad as boomers when it comes to their devices and figuring out how an app works. I noticed younger people are also VERY quick to claim they were hacked when they aren’t aware of what hacking actually is.

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      TikTok did not come out until the youngest millennial was already 20. They would have been 11 or 12 when the iPhone came out. You might be thinking of Gen Z.

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      IT people will not be spared the embarrassment of not being able to keep up with whatever bullshit the kids are into. Being a “IT person” doesn’t give you automatic understanding of all tech.