An artist reports that her niece doesn’t know a familiar keyboard shortcut. Your niece is not an isolated case: many young people have little experience with computers. One student explains that this is because they were “born with a cell phone in their hand.”
An artist from Argentina explained on Twitter/X that her niece doesn’t know common keyboard shortcuts. But that doesn’t seem to be an exception. There are repeated reports that young people, particularly Gen Z and younger, have difficulty using computers. Many people grew up with cell phones rather than computers.
Young people have little experience with computers
This is what the artist says: Argentine artist and cartoonist María Luque reported on Twitter/X that her 19-year-old niece doesn’t know how to use a keyboard shortcut as simple as Ctrl+Z, which can undo an action or multiple actions in seconds.
The artist explained that she discovered that every time her niece messed up while performing tasks in AutoCAD, she would start over again instead of undoing the last action. AutoCAD is software for drawing 2D and 3D models.
Is this an isolated case? No, actually not. Genbeta colleagues report that a teacher said that many of her students had great difficulty with computers. She is a third-year teacher at a private Argentine university and explained: Although everyone uses a laptop, many do not know how to create folders, move files, or what to do when downloading a compressed file.
A young woman confirms what the artist or the teacher explains. She says that when she arrived at university she had computer classes and that it took her a while to get used to using a PC or resorting to keyboard shortcuts that she now knows are basic. She was “born with a cell phone in her hand” and was not used to the computer.
One trend seems to be particularly popular among young people in Gen Z: job ghosting. This is now shown by survey data from a platform that surveyed applicants and companies: 78% of all applicants are said to have deliberately ignored the employer:
There’s a popular trend among Gen Z: They don’t go to interviews