An artist reports that her niece does not know a well-known keyboard shortcut. Her niece is not alone: many young people have little experience with computers. This is because, explains a student, they were “born with a phone in hand.”
An artist from Argentina explained on Twitter/X that her niece does not know well-known keyboard shortcuts. But that seems to be no exception. There are repeated reports that young people, especially from Gen Z and younger, struggle with computers. Many have grown up more with mobile phones than with computers.
Young people have little experience with computers
This is what the artist says: The Argentine artist and cartoonist María Luque reported on Twitter/X that her 19-year-old niece does not know how to use a simple keyboard shortcut like Ctrl+Z, which allows you to undo an action or multiple actions in seconds.
The artist explained that she discovered that her niece each time she got confused while performing tasks in AutoCAD started over instead of undoing the last action. AutoCAD is software for drawing 2D and 3D models.
The translated thread reads:
My 19-year-old niece does not know the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Z. Every time she got confused in AutoCAD, she started over. I showed it to her, and she couldn’t believe it. Yesterday she told me that it was the latest thing at college when she showed it to her friends. This generation has never touched a computer, only phones.
Is this an isolated case? No, indeed not. The colleagues from Genbeta report that a teacher said many of her students have great difficulties with computers. She teaches in the third year at a private university in Argentina 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 courses and that it took her a while to get used to using a PC or resorting to keyboard shortcuts that she now knows are fundamental. She was “born with a phone in hand” and not used to computers.
Among young people of Gen Z, a particular trend seems to be especially popular: 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 intentionally ignored the employer:
There is a popular trend among Gen Z: They don’t show up for job interviews
