Oct 3, 2026, 4:06 PM@evan I feel like we've had cars for well over a century but there are still a lot of people who don't know how to drive or do it poorly. Access to technology doesn't necessarily mean experience with it.
- Oct 3, 2026, 4:06 PM
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Oct 3, 2026, 6:05 PM@jessamyn Right. But it would be stupid to say, *because* she was born in the 1970s, she's not experienced with cars. The generation that never saw cars as children and for whom cars became ubiquitous during their adulthood was born before 1900.
I'm not sure why everyone is hanging onto this one so hard. Do we all like ageist stereotypes that much? Is it so hard to let go of them?
- Oct 4, 2026, 1:01 AM
@evan With kindness, I work with older people and technology every week and am also not a fan of ageist stereotypes. You said "The stereotype that [our elders] are inexperienced with technology is obsolete and meaningless" which was what I was responding to.
The fact that tech exists around people doesn't necc. mean they will have interacted with it much, regardless of their age. I see 30-somethings who also are inexperienced with tech and it's harder for them b/c people assume they know it.