I am very grateful that my 76 year old mother is savvy enough to ask me or my brother if something seems off. If she gets a suspicious email or link or pop up and she’s no 100% sure it’s fake she asks one of us and we’ll check it out.
I’m so glad she’s not an easily manipulated boomer like some of them. Not saying boomer bad, just that because a lot of them were already up there before the internet became a thing it’s easy for them to take something they see at face value because they don’t realize how easy it is to lie on the internet.
It’ll be a lot harder in the future when AI-generated voices really hit the mainstream and we can’t even tell if our family is actually calling on the other end!
That’s where growing up in the 80s comes in handy. Thanks to stranger danger we were taught to use code words to prove if someone was telling the truth that our parents sent them to get us. Now it will be needing to use a code word to prove we’re talking to who we think we are.
I am very grateful that my 76 year old mother is savvy enough to ask me or my brother if something seems off. If she gets a suspicious email or link or pop up and she’s no 100% sure it’s fake she asks one of us and we’ll check it out.
I’m so glad she’s not an easily manipulated boomer like some of them. Not saying boomer bad, just that because a lot of them were already up there before the internet became a thing it’s easy for them to take something they see at face value because they don’t realize how easy it is to lie on the internet.
That’s a healthy amount of skepticism.
It’ll be a lot harder in the future when AI-generated voices really hit the mainstream and we can’t even tell if our family is actually calling on the other end!
That’s where growing up in the 80s comes in handy. Thanks to stranger danger we were taught to use code words to prove if someone was telling the truth that our parents sent them to get us. Now it will be needing to use a code word to prove we’re talking to who we think we are.