• maxmoon
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    22 years ago

    Okay, so it’s because of the same reason they don’t like to use emails anymore. There is an association to apply to a job or communicate with teachers, etc. and they are uncomfortable to use it, because of that.

    Maybe I can compare it with my generation (Millennials). We didn’t use letters to write to friends and didn’t know the concept of a pen pal, because every time we get a letter (made out of paper) it was a bill or something different uncomfortable. Emails and ICQ were our thing, especially boomers didn’t know how to use the internet (or haven’t seen a useful purpose) at the time and that’s why we even liked it more.

    So in general it’s conditioning a whole generation to make only bad experience with a thing, until they get anxious about it.

    • Seanchaí (she/her)
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      32 years ago

      yeah, and honestly I think that’s a cycle that will generally repeat. Every new generation will be averse to the previous generations’ communication methods, because they will associate it with talking to adults and be uncomfortable with it