I was reading an article this morning from The New Oil about how scams are evolving and how to avoid them. Inside the article, he writes, “as another interesting note, while people ages 34 to 44 tend to get scammed more often, people ages 18 to 24 tend to lose more in scams. This counters the idea that only tech illiterate old people fall for scams or that you can be too poor to be targeted.” I would argue that the 34 to 44 range is the more interesting data point because I don’t believe that the 18 to 24 people are more tech literate. I think people are overall less tech literate and they’re just iPad kids. They don’t understand how to troubleshoot anything. College kids can’t use folders or file systems. Everything is just iPad this, iPad that. I think there needs to be more pushback on what actual tech literacy is versus being able to efficiently open apps on Android or iPhones without having any basic computer skills whatsoever. The similarities between older folks and young kids when it comes to having any sort of tech understanding is surprisingly similar in my experience. There is a very narrow gap of time (I would Argue 26-45 currently) that have any real tech literacy.
This is day 9 of #100DaysToOffload
