Generation Gap
My birth year lands on the cusp of Generation X. Recently, I took a Generation X vs. Generation Y quiz and the results failed to surprise me as I fell squarely in the middle of the two. The uses of certain technology were the main distinguishing factors between X and Y.
Text Messages
I will occasionally text message but only to a select few people. I don’t text my parents or all my friends but I do use text as a verb. I send around twenty text messages a month, give or take a few depending on how many of my friends I’m still on speaking terms with. I love text messages; I think they were created for non-social types like me. You can communicate just the necessities without having to have a 10 minute conversation as well.
MySpace
After extreme peer pressure from certain so called friends I broke down and created a MySpace page. I must admit that I find the whole site and experience extremely obnoxious, namely when friends who know my personal and work email address perfectly well send me a message over MySpace. Since I never logon directly to MySpace, when they email me there, that means I get a message in my personal email that I have a MySpace message and I have to log into MySpace to read the stupid message. They could have just as easily sent it directly to my personal email, saving me a step. If you wanted to meet new people, which I’m terrible at, I understand the usefulness of using MySpace email. Not many random people met over the net are TRUSTWORTHY enough to get your true email address. Having worked for a short stint as a web designer all the overdone graphics, songs and misplaced ads on MySpace try my OCD mind crazy. I prefer FaceBook because it has a consistency in style and you can allow certain groups to see your profile and not anyone outside of those groups. I’m trying to work through the irritation with MySpace, because I don’t want to admit that I’m old and grouchy and totally not with it.
IPod
I love my IPod. My husband gave it to me for my birthday (March 7th) and I’m addicted to downloading all my podcasts. My parents had NPR on every morning and every weekend so it is like a security blanket for my siblings and me. Saw Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me when it came through Portland and laughed so hard my stomach hurt the next day, which is really more of a reflection on my lack of motivation to work out than anything else.
YouTube
Does it sum it up to admit that I believed YouTube was spelled UTube for the longest time?
My birth year lands on the cusp of Generation X. Recently, I took a Generation X vs. Generation Y quiz and the results failed to surprise me as I fell squarely in the middle of the two. The uses of certain technology were the main distinguishing factors between X and Y.
Text Messages
I will occasionally text message but only to a select few people. I don’t text my parents or all my friends but I do use text as a verb. I send around twenty text messages a month, give or take a few depending on how many of my friends I’m still on speaking terms with. I love text messages; I think they were created for non-social types like me. You can communicate just the necessities without having to have a 10 minute conversation as well.
MySpace
After extreme peer pressure from certain so called friends I broke down and created a MySpace page. I must admit that I find the whole site and experience extremely obnoxious, namely when friends who know my personal and work email address perfectly well send me a message over MySpace. Since I never logon directly to MySpace, when they email me there, that means I get a message in my personal email that I have a MySpace message and I have to log into MySpace to read the stupid message. They could have just as easily sent it directly to my personal email, saving me a step. If you wanted to meet new people, which I’m terrible at, I understand the usefulness of using MySpace email. Not many random people met over the net are TRUSTWORTHY enough to get your true email address. Having worked for a short stint as a web designer all the overdone graphics, songs and misplaced ads on MySpace try my OCD mind crazy. I prefer FaceBook because it has a consistency in style and you can allow certain groups to see your profile and not anyone outside of those groups. I’m trying to work through the irritation with MySpace, because I don’t want to admit that I’m old and grouchy and totally not with it.
IPod
I love my IPod. My husband gave it to me for my birthday (March 7th) and I’m addicted to downloading all my podcasts. My parents had NPR on every morning and every weekend so it is like a security blanket for my siblings and me. Saw Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me when it came through Portland and laughed so hard my stomach hurt the next day, which is really more of a reflection on my lack of motivation to work out than anything else.
YouTube
Does it sum it up to admit that I believed YouTube was spelled UTube for the longest time?
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