Google Teaches Your Parents Tech

Wow, as a boomer who has been using com­put­ers since 1976 I find this real­ly offen­sive. So if you are what, over 40 or over 50 the assump­tion is that you don’t know how to use com­put­ers? You don’t know that “if some­thing sounds too good to be true it prob­a­bly is”. That if you get an email ask­ing for per­son­al info you should­n’t respond. How bizarre is this?

hey Mil­len­ni­al gen­er­a­tion, hey google… my gen­er­a­tion invent­ed the hard­ware and soft­ware you think we don’t under­stand. Here’s a deal. I won’t make over gen­er­al­ized assump­tions about your gen­er­a­tion if you refrain from doing the same about mine.

I’ve heard of reverse dis­crim­i­na­tion before. This is reverse con­de­scen­sion!

No doubt some use­ful stuff, but the mar­ket­ing angle puts off one gen­er­a­tion and miss­es all the young­sters who don’t know this stuff. *voice of expe­ri­ence with uni stu­dents*

And if you do have to help your par­ent under­stand some­thing, how about spend­ing some time with them and show them, rather than brush­ing them off with a video. Its the least you can do after they taught you how to talk, walk, love and live.