Am millennial. I was taught not to believe anything that anyone said on the internet anywhere and to never tell anyone online a single detail about your irl life, and I had to learn how to figure stuff out myself when my parents weren't watching. It's a skill that can be learned, it isn't inherent to millennials, though granted we all had a lot more fucking about to do with our devices in our time so it makes sense that most of us picked it up.

Nowadays my parents readily believe all the crazy shit people write on the internet about politics and suffer from identity theft because they give their data to just anybody, and kids don't know what a file explorer is or how to read an error message without instinctually shitting their pants. What the fuck happened?

I feel like for a brief, beautiful span of like 5 years between 1998-2003 everyone was all mostly on the same page with tech stuff, and then we got left behind in the valley of sanity while the two generations adjacent to us melted their brains. But I was less than 10 years old during that mythical time so what the fuck do I know, I was mostly busy playing Donkey Kong and learning times tables.