what's your take on gen alpha and now beta

[Bobmeboi]

As someone born in 2010 I would like to know how you think about gen alpha and up coming gen beta
*side note is 2010 gen Z or alpha I don't know?*

 

[tetsuo]

you all have it difficult, internet came to soon for society and turned alot of people into sheep/NPC's IMO largely because you cant turn it off and walk away and i think it hurts your generation. i grew up on the cusp of internet and mobiles. we touched grass as kids and lived a life without hearing everyone's opinions. no hate just what it seems like with my niece/nephew and social media

 

[Karnik]

Ohh... You're even more of a brat than I thought! I could be your dear daddy. But can minors sign up here? I'll have to ask the chief. Don't worry, yours truly will escort you to the exit, if necessary.

 

[Cu-Neo]

To me those are only names. What matters in a person are the manners, beliefs, the memes.

After all we are all humans no title is going to change what we truly are.

 

[ciro64]

As someone born in 2010 I would like to know how you think about gen alpha and up coming gen beta
*side note is 2010 gen Z or alpha I don't know?*

What's your opinion on old consoles and games? Does it feel too archaic to you or do you find it interesting?

 

[Tonberry]

Don't worry about this generation talk. Every generation gets mocked by the one before it, but millenials seem to go turbo hard on zoomers for some insane reason, my theory is that they're tired of being made fun of so much so they're doing the easy thing and blame youngsters for their troubles.
It should be used solely as a metric for different age groups, to see how it interacted with the world, not this shit-flinging contest it's become.

What matters is the person, not when they were born.

Edit: For what it's worth, I was born in '95 and I've always felt like I'm in this weird fringe-area between generations, and I've read similar things by people born the same year. I relate to both generations but feel at home in neither, so to speak (I feel more comfortable under the millenial umbrella though, not exactly sure why, probably because I still remember when social media "arrived" and it wasn't always the default). I've always had friends that were older than me, but I'm the oldest of my siblings, and my youngest brother is 9 years younger than me, so I got to be "a kid" for a long time.

 

[Bobmeboi]

What's your opinion on old consoles and games? Does it feel too archaic to you or do you find it interesting?

I grew up with a Wii u but my two older sisters had 2 DS and a Wii so I had a lot of experiences with older hardware and now every scene I got my sister 3ds in 2018
I've always been into old stuff and modding stuff *shhhh* and when I got to school I ask people in my grade level and I say "do you know what a DS and or Wii is" and 8/10 people will say "what is a ds" and I makes me sad alittle

 

[Clippy]

I have some exposure on a regular basis so here's my 2 cents for what it's worth. For the most part they're no that different than the previous generations. Some are smart, some are dumb. Some are athletic and active, others are withdrawn and nerdy. They have their slang and memes I barely understand but hey, my parents didn't understand our lingo either.

There are a couple things that strike me. One is the unbelievably short attention span. I dunno if it's the brainrot they've been blasted with ever since their most formative years or just kids being kids and not knowing how to hide their disinterest and boredom properly. My generation had to deal with crazies claiming that Harry Potter is gateway to Satanism so maybe now it's my turn to be a crusty old fart but I'm concerned about things like TikTok. To be fair, parents are to blame too. Giving your toddler a tablet with Coco Melon just to shut them up and have some peace and quiet is not parenting.

Another thing is that their computer literacy seems to be at an all time low. Anything harder than launching a smartphone app seems to be insurmountable for a lot of them. God forbid they ever face any problem that will require them to take their device apart to fix it. Granted, this isn't completely their fault either. I grew up with computers and all the troubleshooting that entailed, including getting inside the case every once in a while. Back then all it took was removing a few screws and BAM, you were inside. These days we're living the era of smartphones and laptops which are much more difficult to disassemble. On one hand, they break down less often and you don't have to deal with a lot of things that used to be the norm (anyone remember messing with Master/Slave jumper settings? Schedule a prostate exam, you fossil), on the other hand the situation is not conducive to learning the workings of your devices.

In general - there are things that concern me but I don't think you guys will bring about the end times like some doomscrolling whiners like to claim.

 

[Tonberry]

Another thing is that their computer literacy seems to be at an all time low. Anything harder than launching a smartphone app seems to be insurmountable for a lot of them.

I think this is generally due to internet becoming more accessible than ever before, because you see it alot in pre-millenial generations too. Gen X-ers who weren't nerdy when they were younger get caught in this insane "I have to comment on everything I see"-thing that alot of young people do too, and live through their smartphones and use it in lieu of a computer, and get tricked by the same traps and schemes as young people.

 

[Bobmeboi]

I have some exposure on a regular basis so here's my 2 cents for what it's worth. For the most part they're no that different than the previous generations. Some are smart, some are dumb. Some are athletic and active, others are withdrawn and nerdy. They have their slang and memes I barely understand but hey, my parents didn't understand our lingo either.

There are a couple things that strike me. One is the unbelievably short attention span. I dunno if it's the brainrot they've been blasted with ever since their most formative years or just kids being kids and not knowing how to hide their disinterest and boredom properly. My generation had to deal with crazies claiming that Harry Potter is gateway to Satanism so maybe now it's my turn to be a crusty old fart but I'm concerned about things like TikTok. To be fair, parents are to blame too. Giving your toddler a tablet with Coco Melon just to shut them up and have some peace and quiet is not parenting.

Another thing is that their computer literacy seems to be at an all time low. Anything harder than launching a smartphone app seems to be insurmountable for a lot of them. God forbid they ever face any problem that will require them to take their device apart to fix it. Granted, this isn't completely their fault either. I grew up with computers and all the troubleshooting that entailed, including getting inside the case every once in a while. Back then all it took was removing a few screws and BAM, you were inside. These days we're living the era of smartphones and laptops which are much more difficult to disassemble. On one hand, they break down less often and you don't have to deal with a lot of things that used to be the norm (anyone remember messing with Master/Slave jumper settings? Schedule a prostate exam, you fossil), on the other hand the situation is not conducive to learning the workings of your devices.

In general - there are things that concern me but I don't think you guys will bring about the end times like some doomscrolling whiners like to claim.

I will say despite some people seeing me as young I still when outside and played half the time of the day even tho there was no one in my neighborhood.

 

[Grumpy_Old_Man]

Being an Introvert/hyperactive fellow, i found them hard to even understand. How can you stay on your butt for days straight, can you survive without doing more physical things?
But as it's already been mentioned, the phone addiction it's a transversal problem as i usually see people past their eighties as much or more obsessed with the always connected craze.

 

[DunkeyKong]

I felt a great disturbance in the Force…you wanna make a move, modders?

 

[vaçago]

I don't know but I'm sorry for you not having lived the 90s. Those were the days!
(now I feel like an ancient graybeard)

 

[Clippy]

Being an Introvert/hyperactive fellow, i found them hard to even understand. How can you stay on your butt for days straight, can you survive without doing more physical things?
But as it's already been mentioned, the phone addiction it's a transversal problem as i usually see people past their eighties as much or more obsessed with the always connected craze.

Perfect nickname for the thread, my dude.

 

[Yoru Momo]

As someone born in 2010 I would like to know how you think about gen alpha and up coming gen beta

I think I would respect them more if they didn't have a graphic interchange format with a puppet performing act of onanism in the profile.

 

[Bobmeboi]

I think I would respect them more if they didn't have a graphic interchange format with a puppet performing act of onanism in the profile.

its jeffy trust me you would just have to be there

 

[χKai]

Gen Alpha? Alpha cue up

 

[Stravioska]

Alpha 2 is my fav

 

[Grumpy_Old_Man]

Perfect nickname for the thread, my dude.

I'm just trying to master the art of grumpiness.

 

[coolguy21]

social media seems to be rampant and people are all over it and they some times enforce it on others. It tends to shape people for the worse almost like its a competition of who is the best and if you have imperfections then you deserve a downfall.
im glad i grew up in country so all i had as kid was a handmedown laptop loaded with emulators, and
cows around me, along side with wild animals

 

[fake-kun]

All of this is dumb.

 

[Somnia]

Its kinda brutal. World is regressing in a lot of ways socially/politically and the internet is in its most predatory, bastardizes and normalized form of all time. My youngest siblings/cousins are 16-18 and idk what generation that makes em but I definitely feel and fear for em.

That said I always hold out hope that the youth will figure it out. On a long enough timeline, progress and positive change is inevitable.

I think I would respect them more if they didn't have a graphic interchange format with a puppet performing act of onanism in the profile.

The amount of people my age (millenial) who would just have hentai or extremely ecchi stuff as their pfp on forums or social media growin up doesn't make us much better unfortunately lol

 

[Dakarus]

its jeffy trust me you would just have to be there

Well I'm eternally grateful that I didn't grow up watching this

 

[Firenoh]

I grew up with a Wii u but my two older sisters had 2 DS and a Wii so I had a lot of experiences with older hardware and now every scene I got my sister 3ds in 2018
I've always been into old stuff and modding stuff *shhhh* and when I got to school I ask people in my grade level and I say "do you know what a DS and or Wii is" and 8/10 people will say "what is a ds" and I makes me sad alittle

Oh.
"Old hardware" refers to the Wii and DS now...

 

[Bobmeboi]

Oh.
"Old hardware" refers to the Wii and DS now...
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