• s20@lemmy.ml
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    I hate Gen Z

    Dude. I have a group that only talks on Facebook Messenger. It’s 100% Gen X and Millennials. Don’t blame the generation, it just makes you sound like an old man yelling “get off my lawn”.

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      Don’t blame the generation, it just makes you sound like an old man yelling “get off my lawn”.

      I’m assuming that they are also Gen Z, with the whole college roommates thing.

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        I went to college at 29. And it really doesn’t matter how old you are, complaining about a younger generation makes you sound old.

        Take it from a Gen Xer who’s heard The Greatest, the Boomers, and my own generation do it 😁

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          I went to college at 29.

          Did you also have just-out-of-highschool roommates though?

          Also, fair on the rest of your point. Don’t have to be old to act old.

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          complaining about a younger generation makes you sound old.

          Complaining about any generation, as if it’s a monolith, makes you sound small minded and ignorant. This is as true for older people as it is for the young. Many Gen Zers constantly blame all the world’s problems on Baby Boomers and seems to think all their troubles will magically disappear once the oldest living generation is dead and buried. They’re gonna be real fucking surprised the day they wake up and realize the only thing they ever accomplished socially with all that ageism was to normalize blind hatred of anyone over 40, which will be them before too long.

          And, yes, I know that I’m unironically complaining about a generation in this post. Or at least a segment of them.

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        millennials were doing that in their 20s though. it was a whole drama with some of my friends when i switched to android back in the day (5-8 years ago, mind). you just want to be a grumpy old.

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        Okay. We’ll take that as a given.

        I didn’t say they were wrong. I just said they sounded like an old man yelling at kids to get off his lawn.

        And I stand by that.

        ETA: okay, I’ll admit that I might have implied they were wrong. Sorry about that.

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        Since when? Boomers will click anything you send them, Gen X think they are too clever to be phished on their XP desktop, and Millennials will give you their entire credit history for $50 off a streaming service. The majority of every generation doesn’t give a shit about digital privacy.