Post #2120101

2023-05-23 10:35 UTC

@dymaxion Same goes for the elderly. So many of my older customers are scared of their devices because we keep holding them up as examples of being tech-illiterate which serves to reinforce their fear. @kim

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@kim@outdoors.lgbt 2023-05-23 11:55

@proactiveservices @dymaxion Also, young people are just as good at being tech illiterate these days. The GenX heuristic that tech literacy inversely correlates with age went out the window years ago.

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@PeachMcD@union.place 2023-05-23 16:02

@proactiveservices @dymaxion @kim I'm an old hippie who works at the library. I get steamed every time I have to shelve the Facebook (Instagram, tech du jour) For Seniors. I'm actually really good at picking up new software - I enjoy it like a new game. People assuming that I'm techphobic or inept are showing their ignorance just like someone assuming black folks all love (fill in racist trope here)

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@tech@tc.nz 2023-05-24 02:48

@proactiveservices @dymaxion @kim Ooof, I probably needed to hear that. I don’t think I’ve done it in a presentation but I definitely have done that casually/anecdotally. Noted for the future 😣

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