posted by MontyBrunswick
this isn't generation related. there's a ton of grown ass adults that read one-line headlines on facebook/reddit or whatever and simply take it at face value. most of the time they don't even click into the article to see what it says.
at work a few years ago, one of the stupid old ladies i worked with saw a headline on facebook about charles manson being released from prison and parroted that fact to everyone in the room.
completely false, just glanced at the headline and went with it.
one interesting thing i have noticed as i've gotten older is that my generation is the "sweet spot" for technology. we can pick up and use pretty much anything.
the younger generation can't. they didn't grow up on computers: they grew up on smartphones.
as such, now that they're entering the workforce, a disappointing amount of them don't know how to use a damn computer, and since they grew up on smartphones that cater to dumb people, they can't do any basic troubleshooting either. they just expect it to work and if it doesnt they are helpless.
so, in my experience, now there's a sweet spot of ~30-50 year olds that can use computers. pretty much everyone outside of that range tends to be a moron.
Had an older former co-worker who was so damn annoying about that. If she wasn't working and in the office (which seemed to be a lot of the time), she'd either be mindlessly gossiping or doing the "read the headlines" while scrolling through an entire newsfeed. And it wasn't just that; she was regularly trying to engage other people (who might actually be *GASP* working at work) to talk with her about those headlines. It's be this regular "Hey, (name of someone else), here's one for you." and then read off some headline. Just one of those super-annoying people who seemingly has to be talking at all times and if she doesn't have anything to say, she'll manufacture it one way or another.
I was so damn happy when she left because, on top of that other stuff, she was also one of the most negative people around, so half her talking was her bitching about something in a White Trash Karen sort of way where, for example, she refused to understand that other departments in the company work with other people than her, so the simple fact she submitted something to them didn't mean they'd immediately be on it and get it back to her within minutes. Totally hated her -- she was this utterly evil combination of "it's all about me", stupidity and stubbornness.
