Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do::The generation that grew up with the internet isn’t invulnerable to becoming the victim of online hackers and scammers.

  • tb_
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    1 year ago

    One thing about this particular phenomenon that the article doesn’t take into account is that Gen Z is a lot more online than boomers are, hence they are exposed more often to the various dangers.

    • @Sethayy@sh.itjust.works
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      91 year ago

      And not even entirely by choice, a boomer - fairly well off financially - can reasonably spend years without touching the internet if they don’t work.

      Imma fail my classes if I don’t sign on once a day, and depressed as fuck in my apartment if I can’t even watch Netflix lmao

    • wowbagger
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      1 year ago

      Did you even bother to skim the article? That’s literally the first reason they give:

      There are a few theories that seem to come up again and again. First, Gen Z simply uses technology more than any other generation and is therefore more likely to be scammed via that technology.

      • TheWoozy
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        31 year ago

        Read the article? Gen-Z doesn’t read articles! /s

      • @Sethayy@sh.itjust.works
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        21 year ago

        They acknowledge their bias but don’t account for it in their numbers, smells like statistics manipulation to me