[Slash65]

In my city in Northern California our downtown uses an app for parking now. I don’t use it so it’s still an option, but you have to goto a kiosk, enter your license plate number, and pay with card. It’s made the downtown more of a ghost town (admittedly it was already dying) and the boomers with cash just don’t go. The younger 20somethings all complain “boomers are too stupid to use an app” and have no concern for privacy apparently. Welcome to the future I guess.

[mikeington]

I have more parking apps on my phone than any other type of app. I begrudgingly download them for some semblance of convenience, but get annoyed that I'm logging in each time as it may be months since I used it, and towns changing apps means I likely have some high percentage of void apps that I keep around just in case. Living in New England doesn't help with lots of small towns, but even Cambridge has multiple apps depending on if you are parking on the street vs in a garage.

[autoexec]

> The younger 20somethings all complain “boomers are too stupid to use an app” and have no concern for privacy apparently.

They were literally trained not to value their privacy. The first generation of ipad kids now have driver's licenses.

[mingus88]

I hear some take pride in being “digital native” and only knowing a world where smartphones are a ubiquitous part of your life.

I’m quite content having grown up without being always online. The childhood I had where what I did between school time and when my parents expected me home for dinner were mine alone. Every event was not recorded by 50+ cameras with bad seats and posted online for nobody to watch.

A truly excellent time to be alive that I doubt we will see again

[singleshot_]

I think we might very well see those times again except it will be very challenging to find food. Good luck.

[smugma]

My wife changed carriers and for a day had lost her phone number. She was texting our son (who is in middle school) and his response was “prove it’s you”.

So digital native kids have learned to not trust people on the internet, don’t use your real name in an alias, etc.

“They were trained not to value privacy” is not what they are being taught in school.