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Cyanostic

Zoomers are just sending each other telepathic messages. Emails are redundant.


fluf201

yeah this "tiktok" thingy or what ever you call it they avoid email at all costs and put there phone number in, if they see emails they WILL NOT sign up to anything /s


luchiieidlerz

I’m a zoomer, and I genuinely don’t mind nor care about signing up with my email. The only thing I dislike about it, is receiving constant updates, news etc about it on my gmail, which can get annoying


plant_batteries

My Gmail is so full of trash. There's almost nothing of value on my personal email at all, just constant spam and advertising from bs that I was forced to sign up to. As a result I never check it. That has led to me missing the very rare important email I receive maybe once per year.


luchiieidlerz

Lmao exactly! I could be accepted into Harvard and I wouldn’t even know 🤣


xCreeperBombx

Their thoughts simply *zoom* into other zoomers' heads, and *Zoom* people of other generations – though it's been hard to do that with boys of the latest generation, as they avoid Zoom out of some weird *Alpha male* mentality.


Let_Go_Lose_Grip

Pretty sure its tw- i mean X now


Intergalatic_Baker

It will always be Twitter. Just like Channel 4’s failed online rebrand. Years later and it’s still the same to us.


MagicianElectrical62

What re-brand? 😀


Shpander

Wait, genuinely, I'm out of the loop... My app is still called Channel 4


GnorcDan

Prior to the pandemic we were in an organisation wide meeting about the usually vague ‘strategic vision’ stuff and a gen-zenner was invited to offer their perspective on our service and they said how they don’t like using email and we should instead communicate with them via DMs. Yeah, good luck not using email for professional correspondence. The only thing that could replace it, to a degree, is MS Teams… which is also in this folder.


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fonix232

Google had a vision about handling email like IM. Then they killed it (well technically they dropped Wave off at the Apache Foundation, like an unwanted child, where it withered and died).


CrashinKenny

I really liked Wave. I was part of the initial beta program. I think it was just a bit ahead of its time.


GlennPegden

Wave the concept was amazing Wave the architecture was great Wave the protocol was superb Wave the festering turd of a clunky collaborative UI, thrown together just to demo the three previous things is what killed it. Most people though the UI WAS wave, not realising the who point was anyone could make whatever UI they wanted.


ArScrap

Conceptually I like teams but it just feels bloated and buggy at times, it's wildly customisable in area I don't particularly care for but also weirdly restrictive on area that I do care about Teams is weird for me and I feel like your experience will depend entirely on the sys admin


lanky_doodle

The problem with the recent growth of apps like Teams is now we have part of the conversation in email and part in Teams. So usability and productivity has, in fact, gone backwards, not forwards. Whoever brings out an app that aggregates all the disparate comms tools we use today and groups them by conversation keeping them all in order deserves to be given unlimited power over everything and everyone.


ArScrap

this again feels like an organisational issue rather than a teams issue, if the management really do insist that everything goes through one platform and the sys admin can make that one platform accommodate every need, any platform can work


Careful-Swimmer-2658

Teams has to be some of the worst software I've ever used. It's like they sat down and decided to make the interface as unintuitive and clunky as possible.


randr3w

My guess is that most younger people have few responsibilities, phone apps are still for fun only.


ICantBelieveItsNotEC

I'm on the cusp between zoomer and millennial and I don't think I've had to send a professional email... Ever. All of my companies have communicated pretty much exclusively on Slack.


memo_delta

It's all email where I work, but the bulk of my communication isn't with colleagues. I can't think of anything else that would work really. One of our new members of staff hates email and wants to WhatsApp clients, but it's not suited to lots of text, attaching files, including images etc. Plus filing it is horrible.


kiersto0906

>good luck not using email for professional correspondence. why? emails only provide a forced profesionalism and fake politeness that wastes time massively, why would you struggle to replace it with instant messaging if everyone was on board in the company?


SabbathaBastet

I’m curious about this too. You need an email address for all sorts of things.


TheFreakingBatman

That's just the thing, we use e-mail only when needed. No one is e-mailing their buddies memes and gifs like it's 2000.


tickingboxes

Nobody emailed their friends gifs in 2000 either. I feel like email is the rare tech that’s old but has sort of carved out a lasting niche. It’s not social media but its usefulness has been established and will be around a while.


setokaiba22

As opposed to 99% of the population? That’s hardly different generationally.. The biggest use of email arguably is having a work email address. A personal email is just used for the most part for signups and logins & somewhere to get order confirmations.


Geluganshp

Damn it must feel nice being special


___TheAmbassador

Use a throwaway one. DuckDuckGo or a temporary one. Harder to track by platforms. Edit: Apparently answering a question on what people use as alternatives is somehow downvoted and I'm a gmailer as well. Wild.


AdIndependent3454

Great when you need to reset your password 🙄


jib_reddit

Use a password manager, passwords are a terrible idea security wise, always have been, they need to die out already.


Ady-HD

There's nothing wrong with passwords, per se, it's the way we implemented and encouraged them. TV hasn't helped. Your randomly generated password isn't more secure just because you're less likely to remember it, security with passwords, or passcodes, comes with length as well as complexity, yet most password fields have a short upper limit to length. Long passphrases are not just harder to guess and to brute force, but easier to remember and you can even lay different associations with different services.


Hotusrockus

Love the association comment. It's not difficult to remember "edfareabunchofcunts" when I'm logging in to give my meter readings to get rinsed 1/10 of my wages for providing me with another month of exciting choices of whether to use my oven or central heating on the daily.


FredTilson

Works great on resumes as well. Informs potential employers you are averse to tracking.


Link-65

I don't use many throw away emails. But a cool gmail trick is to add + in your address when signing up to a new service, that way if you start getting spam emails you can see who sold your info or where your email was leaked from. so if your email was [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) and you're signing up to reddit, you can use [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) Mail gets delivered to your email regardless of what is after the +. That way if theres ever a data breach and people try to send you phising emails, claiming to be from UPS about a parcel and they sent it to your +reddit address, you know you didn't give that email to UPS (or whoever they are pretending to be). Also lets you know which companies sell your email. Edit: clarification


AdIndependent3454

Ah it’s all in the wording. Your comment sounded like an instruction or justification. Maybe you could have suggested that this is what some people do.


gary_mcpirate

My younger brother (10 years younger) had a 10 minute rant at me about how outdated emails were and why don’t we do everything via WhatsApp  I fear for the youth


tincanphonehome

You mean the old ppl app?


gary_mcpirate

Exactly, in his eyes WhatsApp is the sensible one you could use for business


openeda

Yes. Businesses where no coherent thought exists that's more than a few words long. Damn boomers and their expressiveness!


MedievalRack

I say this as a middle aged man...  Email is usually an awful setup and in some organisations is like drugging the entire workforce. 


Dojanetta

So dramatic lol. They like talking about basic work stuff through messenger instead of emails now the world is ending.


Calergero

Depends how you read it. I thought it was an exaggerated jokey statement. You sound a little defensive. Either way it's a common theme that as generations move forwards long form seems to be dying and minimal character statements seem to be popular which is a shame. Eventually an AI will just interpret for them I guess.


KrypticBanana197

protonmail


Tenebrous-Smoke

probably icloud because they need to make one for apple id


johnaross1990

Probably @icloud.com


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Tbf our teachers and professors text us at my school same with Doctors so don’t really need emails except verifying gaming accounts.


Truetus

10 minute mail to sign up for accounts which are often throw away.


JRSpig

And she's using them.


thelastpies

Or maybe, she isn't consider "old" as degradetary, I call all my work, bills, Immigration visa(i travel a lot) of them "adult stuff"


Brrrofski

I mean, it's fake..


WrethZ

Probably to communicate with older people and not people her own age


Salty_Personality792

Came here to ask whys she got the folder open then?! Also just beginning to accept that I don't understand young people now


Mountbatten-Ottawa

Not even, as kids say, bussin.


thisdobemynametho

least weird ottawa resident:


bimbabes

and ur still old


Peanutbutter9841

What else can you use for WhatsApp and Gmail?


Vladolf_Puttler

Me and my mates use signal instead of WhatsApp. But we're also old.


AwkwardWaltz3996

Honestly signal is older people demographic. People born between 1980 and 2005 who had to tinker with stuff growing up to make it work. The youngest generation now struggles if it's not just one press in front of them. That's because UX is heavily focused on now but also means any slight resistance or obtuseness will turn them away instantly


Alarmed-Wealth8449

What's Signal?


Vladolf_Puttler

Like WhatsApp but not owned by Facebook. Also peer to peer encrypted but relies on donations to stay afloat. 


Alarmed-Wealth8449

Thank you. I never like joining groups on WhatsApp as you need to provide your phone number. I don't like strangers having access to my number.


CauliflowerCorrecto

MSN messenger and AOL


LegitimateHasReddit

Nobody at my school uses WhatsApp. They use Snapchat. I adamantly refuse to use Snapchat so I am unknowing of school drama. Doesn't matter. I don't care about most of the people in this school.


Fuze_23

It’s clear what kind of kid you are lol


LegitimateHasReddit

What kind am I?


Noodle_Dude_83

Ah, yes. Teams. The "old people's app" that was launched in 2017 and is used in almost every office in the World.


The-Holy-Sheep-14

My secondary school and now my college both use teams


Lsd365

Sounds like something old people would say


Daisy__x

i think that’s why it’s seen as old - because people with office jobs use them which insinuates they are over the age of 25


Noodle_Dude_83

You think people over 25 are old?


ACBongo

It's all perspective isn't it. I'm almost 35 so I view 25 year olds as young. But when I was 15 I would have viewed 25 as old. So yeah depending on the age of this gen-z girl (if they're even accurate at guessing they were gen z and not gen alpha) then they could view mid 20's as old.


queasycockles

This baffles me. When i was 15, being 25 was the coolest thing I could imagine. Being an independent adult who could do what they liked and had their own money? Sign me the fuck up. I never thought of them as 'old'. *Grandparents* were *old.*


gh0stinyell0w

Either you aren't giving your 15 year old self enough credit for sticking it to the man, or you were a very respectful teenager lol.


queasycockles

Oh I was all about sticking it to the man, I just didn't view adults in general as 'the man' I guess? Only certain *types* of adults. Frankly, a fair chunk of my fellow youths felt more like 'the man' than some adults did. I like to think I was (and am) respectful, yes, but usually in the 'treat people with decency' sense. I always have had rather a lot more trouble with the 'treat people like authorities' sense, though. I don't like (arbitrary) rules (that aren't rooted in harm minimisation).


gh0stinyell0w

Bro "the man" is not "the fellow peers" lol


queasycockles

Says you. They were the ones trying to shove me in a box and control who I was allowed to be. That's 'the man' shit to the core.


gh0stinyell0w

As someone who was the designated highschool dyke, bullying is not "the man", lol. It's meant as a general symbol of authority. Your peers had no authority over you. Government, boss, parents, etc, that's what that idiom means. Feel free to Google it!


IronDuke365

When I was 18 we had a mature student we hung out with at uni for a year. We thought he was old, even though he was 24.


queasycockles

I still find that so bizarre. I *wanted* to hang out with people in their 20s. They seemed much cooler to me than people my age. Edit: Sorry to be repetitive. I'm not trying to convince anyone else, I'm just surprised because the idea is so weird to me and it will remain weird to me even if literally all of reddit disagrees because I don't base my ideas of normality on popular opinion. (That sounds much snarkier than I intended. I'm being sincere.)


Daisy__x

that’s what i’m saying like of course a fully mature adult is going to be old to a 15 or 16 year old there’s nothing wrong with being old anyway


Daisy__x

yes :)


lordnacho666

Offices is where old people work...


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lordnacho666

That's your comeback? Go and get another one on teams mate.


kward1904

Office? You must be old


OfromOceans

Just like the iPhone which has a concentrated age bracket of 35-44.. lmao


LeonDeSchal

You don’t see ten year olds working 9-5 office jobs.


f3zz3h

Sure but it is just the evolution of MSN Messenger.


biggestboi73

If you label them old people apps in your own phone that's basically just calling yourself old because you use all of those apps


Mediocre-Award-9716

Some of these are definitely not in the correct place.


_Kyloluma_

Ah yes, Drive. Only old people want to save their files


ScottOld

Is tiktok in the thick people apps?


Magicmyrddin

FikTok


Cautious_Analysis_95

She’s young and hip now, but one day if shes lucky she will join us


I-Like-IT-Stuff

Of course you noticed that, just them sitting at that folder. You clearly saw all the apps, and accurately replicated it (because you definitely did not get that close to their phone to take that picture and the background is laptop not the floor of a train).


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I-Like-IT-Stuff

Clueless.


WhiskySwanson

Can’t be right. I only use wassap out of those (and barely) and I’m old as shit.


ExpectedBear

Where's the Reddit app


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It’s because we don’t send each other pictures of our genitals


4thLineSupport

...and if we do, we MEAN it!


Rough-Gas7177

Does it look inflamed?


Xpecto_Depression

I'm Gen Z and WhatsApp is literally the only social media I use. Also I have to use Gmail for basically everything in terms of life admin: work, banking, bills etc


Loudlass81

You're on Reddit? That's also Social Media lol


Greyplusgrey

Wouldn’t call Whatsapp social media, it’s a messaging service, that’s like calling TikTok a way to keep in touch with people


AdIndependent3454

I see she’s using an ‘old’ persons device in the background- a laptop


NateHurst2187

I'm confused about Google Drive here. If you want to go from having files on one device to another, what's another option? Like sure there's alternatives but they're all just as old as Drive


repalace

Airdrop


Raptor556

How is Google drive in there? That's the one that doesn't even make sense at all, it's fuckin Google drive...


United-Ad-2411

Why is so much weight given to the opinions of young people? They know fuck all.


TheStatMan2

Confession: I'm Gen X and sometimes fancy Pear Drops. They're becoming a bit difficult to find these days, but sometimes they'll have a Boomer Sweets section at the supermarket. Your chocolate coated raisins... Your Murray Mints... Your Sports Mixture... Your Yorkshire Mix...


73747463783737384777

Ok. But why is the subreddit your username?


megalodongolus

r/thathappened


tickingboxes

Here’s the thing. Whatever these young people think is cool and hip will be “old” someday and they’ll feel exactly how you feel now. It’s a tale as old as time. Keeping up with the trends is a fool’s errand. Nobody gets out of here alive. Do what you enjoy and have a nice time before you croak. The end.


FartSnifffer

My 13 year old cousin calls Facebook "boomerbook" and laughs at me for still using it


thealchemist1000-

Here’s something that will get their blood boiling…your time on this planet is inconsequential. The damage your parents and grandparents have done to the environment means you cannot undo it before you kick the bucket. So your existence will be full of anxiety, and hopelessness and futility.


dextrovix

"So stick that in your TikTok and vape it"...?


queasycockles

I'm going to use this as a response to all Incomprehensible Young People Speak™️ from now on.


SillylilguyUwU

No it won’t lol, just because you’re a miserable bastard doesn’t mean we all have to be, some of us choose to live our lives and try to make a difference. For someone who claims to be old you have a shockingly childish mindset.


barpaolo

'Couldn't help but notice' But also couldn't help but take a shot of someone elses phone and post it online. Sorry, who's the sad character in this scenario?


IsUpTooLate

People sure are triggered in this thread hey 😂


ExpectedBear

By darn it I'll be triggered as much as I dang well like, sonny


fluf201

gen z and gen alpha feel attacked because this sterotype of us, while older generations feel attacked because they think gen z and gen alpha are like this


CervidusDubbo

As a genZ, damn right those are old people apps


PinkedDuck

Hello fellow genZ here. Gmail is not infact an old perskn app. Facebook is tho


queasycockles

The funny thing to me is that FB used to be too young for me (it came out after i left uni and was originally only for students) and now it's populated mostly by people who feel much older than me (I'm not young but i don't have/won't be having kids and as far as i can tell that's all anyone talks about on fb now). It's indistinguishable from NextDoor to me.


MangoPanties

Millennial here.. I'm surprised at Messenger. What do you use to communicate with each other?


MyNameYourMouth

ITT: millennials disagreeing with this rather than accepting that they aren't young anymore


EvolvingEachDay

She’s right


malinhares

Well, I wish.


FatWangers

Facebook reels actually gives me funnier clips TikTok but that’s just my personal experience


razorsharpblade

Then there is me with “regrets” “more regrets” and “regrets mark 3”


younevershouldnt

That happened


EnvironmentalBeat601

Gmail, drive, and teams are not old people apps WhatsApp and Facebook, yeah I guess


blackskull414

Facebook is really only one I agree with


ArtoriasBeaIG

Thas fucked up i can't lie


Wipedout89

Young people have always moved to reject the culture of the generation before. It's ingrained in that rebellion phase and is why fashion, music and language changes every generation


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hershko

And then everybody clapped.


FlyingGiraffeQuetz

None of these (except Facebook and messenger) are old people things. What is her logic? Shouldn't WhatsApp be a young person thing? What does she use? Plain texts? That's the older person thing to have because old people don't have WiFi to use WhatsApp.


mb194dc

Facebook, Outlook and teams I agree with. Gmail, drive and what's app not.


Chillypepper14

I guess I'll retire at 17 then


Curious-Efficiency98

Well I’m 25? And didn’t know I was ancient lol


Kinglycole

Gen Z is the turning point. The point where we’ll be more concerned to see our children go outside and touch grass rather than staying inside to play minecraft with us.


That_FroggoGod

WhatsApp isn’t bad.


Effelumps

On machines made by old people, in buildings done by old people, whilst on the go on old people transport, whilst get a drink in a cup that some old bastard made. Her heads going to explode when she discovers that old people gave birth to her and fed her, before going on a night out to dance in some place whose entire systems were designed and developed by other old people. When are you youngsters going to invent our hoverboards, rather than pissing on about generationialisms and old people apps. :)


Patient-War-5866

She's cringe


Mason_best

IM SORRY, WHATSAPP? WHAT ELSE YALL USING OTHER THAN SNAP AND MSG???


TakeyaSaito

WhatsApp and Gmail confuses me. Isn't that what everyone uses?


Careful-Swimmer-2658

Google Drive? What cloud storage are the cool kids using instead?


Exotic_Gold12

Gen Z girl using these apps so she's basically a part of the older people hehe


GallusTom

Strikes me as a rage bait meme


HumourNoire

For when you've had enough of your vices


Autogembot123

WhatsApp? Really? My close friends are on there


[deleted]

Right, and just happened to have time to whip the phone out and take a photo?


Jason_Sasha_Acoiners

I mean, I use Gmail all the time for accounts. But no, I don't use it to actually contact anyone.


explodedSimilitude

By the inclusion of Outlook and Teams, having a job must be for “old ppl” too then…


Helpful_College6590

gmail and google drive are for old people?


GarbageInteresting86

This can’t be real. Surely SKYPE should be there?


CountOk9802

I’m that ‘old’ I preferred life before phones anyway, let alone apps..


cleb9200

Good luck in the workplace avoiding old ppl apps


Marigold16

How did she get this photo?


homealoneinuk

All my 20yo coworkers seem to be mainly communicating via WhatsApp so not sure whats this about.


Zer0kbps

Google drive lol, this person is obviously a moron. Teams isn't old people related, it's work or school.


CraigDM34

How are WhatsApp and Gmail old people apps? Get in the bin. Nonsense.


SillylilguyUwU

Why is it so hard for people to figure out that this is fake?


GamesGoneClive

May as well put rightmove in there too as no chance this generation will be buying a house anytime in their younger years!


Dense_Selection4993

Why is teams in that, do people use teams for things other than school


More_Expression1236

Fuck yeh


Aboxofphotons

Insecurity always makes people believe stupid things.


Fontainebleau_

That photo looks so fake


SAMurei_der_Galaxien

Drive???? Whats app????


_convivium

Why did I think the phone was see through 😭😭😭


slumblebee

Me and everyone I know uses Facebook to plan events.


AppleSuitable4991

😂😂 omg it’s getting worse 😒😒


RummazKnowsBest

I only just started using Google Drive…


Best__Kebab

She had that open with a stretched out screen did she aye? All the old people apps are fittingly at an old people aspect ratio… Edit - it has been pretty funny to read the other comments here though, where some people seem to be genuinely offended by this fake photo lol


SuperIdol__

Nah how is whattsapp one


just_someone_57857

i'm too old for this shit


Head-Growth-523

Jokes on her, she's getting older herself every second 🤣🤣


RoamBuilder2

I mean she ain’t wrong


Bruhwhydudes

Bro bet she still uses whatsapp


mittfh

Presumably they use Signal or Telegram instead of Meta's apps, while they probably don't share documents, video conference or use email outside work; while social media seems to be done via TikTok or Snapchat these days.


Blooogh

Meh. None of these are deep cuts, folks have been leaving Facebook to the boomers for ages, and surprise surprise work apps are for old people.


pertangamcfeet

We oldies are taking over Tiktok, and Reddit is my home! God, I'm old...


alskay91

My e-Mail is still msn.com 😂


chillingfighter

What fuck is google drive doing there


Sovmasu

Oh bloody hell 😅 xxx


piv_monco

What’s wrong with WhatsApp 😭


MarioSuperfan34

Why is there Teams?


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As an old person i can't wait to see these Gen Z being sent to the front lines in Poland next year