I recently saw a meme on Facebook that said something along the lines ofย โhow to make a millennial panic: lock them in a room with only a phone book and a rotary phone and write the instructions in cursive!โ It had this smugย โaha, gotchaโ vibe oozing out of it, and itโฆjust sort of made me laugh. Like, really? Really? But it also made me thinkโฆ
Beyond the fact that I know how to use both a phone book and a rotary phone and can read cursive (as long as itโs not too horrifically messy), I think it was the attitude ofย โOh no, weโve got you because you couldnโt possibly figure out how to use something thatโs new to youโ that really made me snort. But I think thatโs the key to this and similar memes that Iโve seen.
They donโt think we could figure out how to use something new to us, because they canโt do it.ย
Like, if you presented a millennial with a rotary phone or a phone book and they had never, ever used one or seen one used before, I can guarantee pretty much any millennial could figure out how to use it. Because thatโs what we do: we adapt. Weโve been through so many variations of technology and seen so many new forms of technology emerge that weโve had to learn to adapt swiftly and fluidly. Itโs second nature to us.
Put a boomer in a room with a smartphone, laptop, and tablet however, and wellโฆdifferent story.
Iโm not sure if they literally donโt understand that presenting a millennial with something they havenโt encountered before would not be an obstacle and certainly not a panic-inducing one, or if they just say things like that to make themselves feel better that they couldnโt do the equivalent, or if itโs a combination of the above.
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