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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] daannii@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Oldest niece recently 18, then 16 and a 14 year old. Nephew is like 11 I think.

All the girls are from my sister and nephew from my brother. I'm pretty sure that's close to their accurate ages.

But yeah they don't teach typing anymore and they expect kids to just learn it on their own but a lot of people don't have home computers. Kids use phones and tablets.

But I can tell you at college level, most writing has to be typed out.

So it's really setting them up for struggling

I remember typing class. I thought it was super boring and frustrating.

I never would have learned to type properly if I hadn't been forced.

I'm sure that's true for most kids/people.

The thing that helped me improve my skills the most was social media. Specifically messengers.

But kids don't use computers anymore for sending messages back and forth.

I honestly think when these kids get into the workforce, there is going to be some serious problems.
They can't use regular computers very well and they can't type.

Basically boomer level tech skills.