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Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do (www.vox.com)
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[–] 86 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (17 children)

Stupid article, most of Gen Z aren’t even 21 yet, of course they’re gonna fall for scams, they’re teenagers or younger lol. I got scammed loads of times on RuneScape as a kid, and that taught me better than anything else how to avoid scams.

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  • [–] 40 points 3 years ago (12 children)

    Considering that Gen Z is usually defined as being born between the mid-late 1990s and early 2010s, I wouldn't support the first half of that statement. Everyone born in the first half of 2005 or earlier are 18, making them adults, so about half of Gen Z is adults.

    Now whether this article uses that age range properly or whether it's just someone using the term to mean "young people", I have no idea.

    But the premise of the article that just because someone uses technology all day makes them somehow invulnerable to scams (something that has absolutely nothing to do with how much someone uses tech) was ludicrous from the start.

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  • [–] 46 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    just someone using the term to mean “young people”

    Rude. How dare they stop using "Millennial" to mean "young people". They weren't supposed to recognize that some of us are in our 40s now!

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  • [–] 29 points 3 years ago* (6 children)

    Millennials: we’re all adults now, we want to be taken seriously!

    Time: passes

    Millennials: never mind we’ve made a mistake let’s go back

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    We still aren't though.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    The US census used 1997 - 2013 as the range. Which gives us an age range of 10-26, making the median age 18 - and I was thinking of 21 as adult, rather than 18 - which is why I said “they’re teenagers or younger” - but yes, you’re right, “only” 40%-ish of gen Z are under 18 :p

    Run the same survey again in 11 years and compare 21+ gen Z to 2023’s boomers and I bet the results aren’t even close.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    You cannot determine median based on range alone. You basically need to know how your datapoints (people in this case) are distributed to be able to actually calculate the median, because the 50th percentile does not have to lie smack in the middle between the extreme ends of your range.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Sure you can, it’s just the median of the range rather than the median person. For what it’s worth, I did look at age distribution statistics and there is some disparity but it’s minimal, which is why I wrote 40% instead of 44%.

    Anyways, this is getting much too pedantic, obviously I’m not writing a scientific analysis, it’s just an internet comment, it doesn’t need to be perfect.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago*

    Now whether this article uses that age range properly or whether it’s just someone using the term to mean “young people”, I have no idea.

    Then read the article because it literally tells you the answer in like the second paragraph lol

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I got scammed by Columbia House when I was a teenager.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Oof. Brings back the memories.

    Though it was expensive, my Time Life 80s Music series (CD) was worth it and I still have em all. Thankfully, it wasn't hard to cancel once I realized I was getting redundant stuff and they would never stop sending CDs as long as I kept paying.

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