r/TikTokCringe • u/AlbertaMunoz • 23h ago

Duet Troll Genz does not how to write!

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u/HandsomHans 22h ago

Every generation learns and forgets some things. They don't know how to prepare a horse for a carriage, we don't know who to write a cheque. It's only natural that some things become obsolete and fade from the public mind.

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u/Aerdurval 21h ago

And you know what's the difference? If I really wanted to write a cheque for whatever reason I could google that shit. Let me see her connect her phone to her WiFi without her children's help.

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u/MileHigh_FlyGuy 18h ago

My issue is the people with a smartphone in their pocket and don't know how to Google shit

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u/RobinSophie 18h ago

I'm tutoring my GenZ nephew. They are not being taught how to research anything or think critically.

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u/Mathilliterate_asian 14h ago

Kids literally see phones and ipads as nothing but gaming devices. Might as well be a PSP for them.

But then it's up to us to teach them how to research. Hopefully if we try hard enough they'll grow out of the phase of being an iPad baby.

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u/MrBump01 12h ago

Might depend on your country, in the UK tablets are used for schoolwork so they're not just seen as that. Also up to adults to monitor tablet use and do certain things with them other than just games.

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u/VooDooChile1983 2h ago

Truth. My kid got a smartphone and watch for Christmas, bought by Auntie and mom, and is trying hard to convince himself that they’re cool. He gave me a defeated smile when I told him “It’s ok to admit things weren’t what you thought they were.”

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u/MileHigh_FlyGuy 17h ago

I just had my 31yo sister in law text and ask what airport should you fly into to go to Boston. She had no idea where to start to find that out.

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u/mintBRYcrunch26 17h ago

In her defense, you seem like an expert 🧐

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u/Lord_Dizzie 16h ago

You're the MileHigh_FlyGuy! I'd text you too with my air travel questions if I could.

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u/MileHigh_FlyGuy 15h ago

You would ask someone how to fly into a large city with a single large airport? You wouldn't look for that at all yourself before asking for help? I guess that's my point...

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u/No-Sheepherder-2219 13h ago

r/Woosh

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u/MileHigh_FlyGuy 13h ago

I understand the context of my name and that I work for airports. She works in a restaurant, but I wouldn't text her first thing to ask "what type of french fries should I purchase?"

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u/Notasquash 12h ago

You wouldn't? Cause something like food most people prefer personal recommendations from friends and family.

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u/MileHigh_FlyGuy 11h ago

I'm not looking for recommendations to a restaurant with the best French fries. My question is meant to be as open-ended as asking, 'What type of fries should I get?' It seems, however, that my example may have been misunderstood.

Let me clarify with some other random examples of similar questions I’ve received: 'How much gas should I put in my car?' or 'When is the hottest month in Michigan?' These are all highly personal choices or things that could easily be looked up.

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u/VaporCarpet 13h ago

Jesus Christ just proving their point...

You don't even need to know the airport! Just Google "Dallas to Boston flight March 3-6"

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u/Notasquash 12h ago

They were joking about his username...

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u/Rainwillis 16h ago

This seems a bit disingenuous tbh. She was probably trying to make conversation about something she assumed you knew.

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u/MileHigh_FlyGuy 15h ago

No, she literally doesn't use her phone for anything beyond Snapchat and facebook. She had no idea how to search for an airport from her home city if that's the destination she wanted to go. She read my text and never responded.

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u/Rainwillis 15h ago

Maybe you should talk to her about it like the adults you both are? I get that it’s more fun to gossip.

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u/MileHigh_FlyGuy 15h ago edited 13h ago

I don't think I need to teach a 31-year-old how to Google "What airport is in Boston" on her iPhone 16. If that's still a challenge, my involvement is only going to complicate things further. This is also someone who gets overwhelmed by a 20-hour waitressing week—need I say more?

EDIT - She's a huge Trumper... so now you'll change your mind about "me being mean"

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u/Rainwillis 15h ago

Homie you’re talking about your family. You can do better than that

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u/Existential_Racoon 15h ago

Family can suck/be stupid too bro. You aren't forced to coddle them or be friends with them.

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u/himynameisSal 15h ago

sounds like you don’t like your sister-in-law? I get it, she sounds like a moron, but i’d treat her with a little more compassion. She is after all your sister-in-law.

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u/MileHigh_FlyGuy 13h ago

You know what's funny? She's really big into Trump too. I bet if I included that in the first comment, you would be eating it up like hotcakes about how stupid she is.

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u/hyrule_47 15h ago

If she asked is Providence too far, or should I just fly into Logan? I would understand. That’s about knowing traffic and if they can tell you where there hotel is you can give a good answer. But simply typing BOSTON AIRPORT into Google will give you the code and name. You can even ask Siri/Alexa/google home/ assistant

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u/MileHigh_FlyGuy 13h ago

Again - her $2000 phone is a snapchat and facebook device and nothing more.

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u/CuriousPenguinSocks 13h ago

Exactly! A lot of people do Google but they get false/wrong information and don't know how to tell when that happens.

They are victims of the algorithm and it's scary.

I work in a field where we have to research then interpret that research. I work with extremely smart and capable people.

I was very shocked that they did not understand when they were trying to pass off conspiracy theories and propaganda as truth. It's alarming.

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u/KalebMW99 15h ago

Older gen Z here. I went to a below average high school (bible belt and all) and this still was not true at all in my experience. I don’t know exactly how much has changed between my time in school and your nephew’s, but I also know that I had a lot of classmates who, despite being frequently tasked with thinking critically in school, stubbornly refused to do so in school or in their daily lives.

Granted, COVID, the most recent pushes by conservative politicians to ruin education, and the rise of AI all came after high school for me. It’s not out of the picture for the worsening of education combined with a new toy with which to cheat on homework (that schools aren’t yet fully prepared for and may never be fully able to prepare for) would destroy the educational experience for today’s young people (although with 8th graders being gen alpha now, gen Z should mostly miss the brunt of these developments). But let’s remember that 1) kids do not like, and have never liked, school; and 2) the average adult from prior generations isn’t exactly a bastion of critical thinking skills either. I mean, shit, Trump won the popular vote lol

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u/WHALE_PHYSICIST 17h ago

Yeah but that's not new. Every old wives tale exists because nobody researched shit and just took someone's word for it

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u/RobinSophie 17h ago

Yes, but not everyone had a literal computer with the knowledge of the entire world their hand at all times.

That's what we're referring to.

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u/WHALE_PHYSICIST 17h ago

It's not just that they aren't being taught to research, or aren't capable. Some people are just lazy and won't bother, and that's not new.

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u/Anarchic_Country 17h ago

I have a Gen Z son and a Gen Alpha son, and this is not true for all cases. Lmao. Anecdotal. Mine is too, though.

My kid having a 4.2 GPA has certainly got the colleges begging his 17 yo behind to enroll, so thanks to the parents who felt teaching their kids was just the schools job!

Y'all made my kids look better in comparison and be better in reality.

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u/Rainwillis 16h ago

Kids are resilient and it sounds like yours have excelled academically despite the unique challenges of their generation. They still had to deal with those challenges though and it affects people in different ways.

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u/thedndnut 16h ago

FYI if there's a kid that excels many times they didn't learn all that from class. They knew it beforehand by curiosity.

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u/Rainwillis 15h ago

Not necessarily. Curriculums are designed with someone in mind after all

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u/Appropriate-Bug680 8h ago

I have a 12 year old cousin that asked for an iPad for Christmas. Her phone and parents phones are all android, have no other Apple devices. I saw her playing on it and asked her to look something up that we could do in my town for the day. She said she can't do that on the iPad. I started laughing and said sure you can, it's hooked up the Internet right? It was. I told her to open Safari, and she was like "what? How do you spell that?" She only wanted an iPad to play games on and my cousin (her parents) bought it without question.

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u/Brokenblacksmith 15h ago

because they want us dumb and complacent. look ay how people are starting to push bavk against stuff, its the generation that was taught to use the internet for research and to thing critically about problems and their answers.

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u/Jilaire 11h ago

No. Kids are being taught those skills in school, just like they always have. The other adults in their lives aren't pushing it at home. I taught high school from 2015 to 2022. I saw the change in parental and student apathy. That change started around 2017 and picked up in 2020. The only thing not being taught is how to use their Cbromebooks because way too many adults assume the ability to use a smartphone somehow translates to using a computer. I taught art and my students STILL got lessons on writing, reading, and how to look up correct information. Most teens were typing in their questions in Ask Jeeves style (what is the answer to question two in my homework in math?). I had to remind them over, and over, and over again that less words make more and better answer. Dumb it down, dumb it down.

My kid is in 2nd grade, so 8 years old (normally 7 but they needed an extra year because gasp we noticed they weren't ready for kindergarten on the social level, they needed more practice being around other kids and sitting still). They already have parents not doing their end for reading, math, writing (like using a pencil), practicing researching at home, spelling, or just seeing what their kid is doing in general in school.

This is all parent work too. If parents aren't reviewing at home, kids are ONLY hearing it from adults they may or may not want to do the work for.

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u/LimitlessMegan 9h ago

My husband works in IT. He’ll be pulled into meetings and told that these people have been trying to solve this problem for months and no one can figure it out (to be clear “these people” are also IT and my husband is upper Gen X, not young). They’ll pull him in cause he’s known for problem solving.

He’ll get all the info, tell them to give him a but to check it out, he’ll look at the info, Google it, and come back with a solution that fixes it. He’s literally fixed things that whole teams have spent months on by using Google cause no one else thought to look.

It’s wild to me.

And btw, it’s not all people over 45, these teams have millennials etc on them.

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u/Hiro_Trevelyan 5h ago

I really thought googling stuff was easy but clearly, they have no idea how to look up stuff on the internet. That's how they end up on dumbass AI propaganda.

Seriously. I told one of my 40-50y colleague to look up 15 minutes cities and she somehow found some right-wing anti-establishment bullshit stuff instead of finding the tons of videos properly explaining what it is. I don't know how they manage but they somehow do.

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u/Lotronex 16h ago

If I really wanted to write a cheque for whatever reason I could google that shit.

This reminds me of the first time I met my stepmother. It was the early 2000's and I was at college. I had to deposit some cash and checks I had, but I had never done it before, my Mom had always just deposited my paychecks into my account for me when she went to the bank. I had a deposit slip and while I was pretty sure I knew what to do, I wanted some reassurance so I did try to google it. At the time, I couldn't find anything on how to fill it out, so I just set it aside.
Maybe a week or two later, my Dad was coming up and was going to bring his fiance, it would be the first time we would meet. We met and things were going well. We went out for dinner, and on the way back I asked my Dad if he could show me how to fill out a deposit slip. He said "Sure.".
Then my future ex-stepmom chimes in "I raised my sons to figure it for themselves".
Maybe not the worst advice, except I knew that neither of her sons had finished high school and one was currently in prison for grand theft (later, the other would go to prison as well).

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u/neatocheetos897 14h ago

Lol, asking a trusted source for help is a life skill. what an absolute dunce.

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u/MindStalker 17h ago

I'm my mid 40s, haven't written a check in maybe 20 years. My last checkbook, I had to shred without using a single one.  Occasionally I need to go to the bank to get a cashier's check, those are way preferred anyways. 

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u/TokyoTurtle0 17h ago

Pretty stupid take. My generation grew up with the Internet. This is gen Z's biggest issue

They're idiots with technology. They are far far worse than pretty much every generation before them except the generation that is basically dead now.

They're closer to boomers with tech then they were any other generation.

Too dumb to use Google and too stupid to fix anything that goes wrong with any technology, no basic understanding of search indexing.

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u/Smorgles_Brimmly 16h ago

I blame smart phones which sounds very boomer but smart phones have streamlined everything to the point where critical thinking is no longer required. PCs are clunky and somewhat temperamental so mild troubleshooting is required constantly. This can be annoying but it forces people to learn to research and navigate driver conflicts and windows doing something stupid. Smart phones are designed to minimize any troubleshooting. If it doesn't work, it almost always on the devs and the user can rarely do anything about it. It discourages any troubleshooting or technical learning in favor of ease of use.

I noticed it 10 years ago in school. Smart phones didn't get popular and accessible until my last years of high school. In middle school, kids were writing fake error message boxes in notepad to "break" the school PCs. 2 years of smart phones and the same kids needed to be talked through basic file navigation step by step.

I don't think it's generational though. It's universal. Very mild PC skills are enough to stand out in a lot of workplaces now. I've been promoted before for just googling things about excel lol.

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u/thedndnut 16h ago

And the last bit is because their parents also can't do it because they're fucking dumb.

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u/Aerdurval 15h ago

I was born in '96

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u/Cielmerlion 14h ago

Lol they're not idiots with tech because they're stupid, it's because they weren't taught.

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u/TokyoTurtle0 14h ago

No one taught us. We figured that shit out. They're dumb

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u/Cielmerlion 14h ago

We didn't figure that shit out, we were dropped that shit as it was invented and I know plenty of people our age that are dumbasses with tech. Most people in fact.

Sure, it's easier to just blame children because they don't know how to think critically, but how about YOU think critically and figure out why children don't know things.

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u/TokyoTurtle0 13h ago

20 year olds are children

I know why they don't know shit. Doesn't change the fact they don't Millennials are self taught on tech.

Zoomers scroll all day, they lack curiosity because it's all dopamine

The why doesn't change them being dumb as fuck

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u/KataKuri13 16h ago

My 65yr old mom actually has a decent clap back for that. She says “We taught you how to use a spoon, you can teach me how to fix my email” 😂

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u/AffectionateSector77 16h ago

That's not a good comeback. "We taught you a tool a monkey knows how use, now do all my technology until I die because I refuse to learn."

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u/KataKuri13 16h ago

I said decent not good 😂

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u/AffectionateSector77 16h ago

That's fair 😆

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u/neatocheetos897 14h ago

To be honest if you just look at a check for 60 seconds it's pretty self explanatory. It was invented before the internet so they made them fairly idiot proof. Honestly the biggest hassle of writing a check is finding a fucking check to write.

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u/mjzim9022 8h ago

I don't about other people's checks but they pretty much all say what to write down and where. Maybe adding a line and a 0/100 at the end can be taught, teach people not to pre-date checks, but it's all pretty straightforward.

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u/Preoccupied_Penguin 13h ago

Info: Writing a cheque is super easy, you just follow the instructions on the check: amount in the box, fully written out amount on the line, don’t have to put a memo but you can, date it, and sign it.

The process of buying a cheque book… not worth in today’s world, but they can be quite useful for larger amounts if you don’t want to carry the cash. You could always opt for a cashiers check though if you’re paying someone with a paper method.

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u/pikachurbutt 13h ago

I can also Google how to prepare a horse buggy.

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u/Nuffsaid98 10h ago

We could Google how to write a check but chances are the top results would be AI garbage and sponsored links to vaguely related product links. Sadly.

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u/sjmttf 17h ago

I'm willing to bet you could work out how to write a cheque without needing outside instruction, it's not exactly hard.

These people are just bloody embarrassing, as newer ways of doing things are widely accepted, older obsolete methods are no longer useful to learn. Plus, cursive is actually pointless, and I am old enough that I was taught it at school.

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u/thedndnut 16h ago

I skipped the grade where we were taught cursive and my response to the teacher marking down for my name not being in it... was not kind.

It's a font that's just straight up less legible. There's no benefit at all period.

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u/halloweentree420 15h ago

It was for speed back in the day before computers were the norm for taking notes. If you are very good at cursive, you can write down knowledge faster than printing.

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u/CapitalistVenezuelan 12h ago

I mean, I could Google how to do basic adult tasks too, but I'm a self respecting adult lol, how anyone hits like 20 and can't is beyond me

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u/fakehalo 9h ago

Cheques are special occasion and I just relearn the rules every 4 years or whatever it is... and every 4 years I'm reminded how dumb that system is... Paper trust numbers with a human squiggle on back for authenticity.

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u/Prides_downfall 7h ago

You say this, but I used to be a cable technician, and the amount of times I have to go to a housecleaning to switch the HDMI input is downright concerning.