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Youngsters not happy oldies going online
THE older generations are moving in on the hi-tech, online world and the under-30s are not impressed.
Scott Seigal was awakened one morning by a mobile phone text message.
It was from his girlfriend’s mother.
His friends’ parents have posted greetings on his MySpace page for all the world to see.
And his 72-year-old grandmother sends him online instant messages every day so they can better stay in touch while he is at university.
“It’s nice that adults know some things,” says Seigal, 18.
He especially likes instant messaging with his grandmother because he is “not a huge talker on the phone”.
Increasingly, however, he and other young people are feeling uncomfortable about their elders encroaching on what many young adults and teenagers consider their technological space.
[Argh! It seems the young’uns proved their point since your old Uncle Dave didn’t remember that Eideard posted this same item last week. Now you kids, get off my lawn!]
Once an elitist prick, always an elitist prick.
Ok this guy is 18 and he is saying things like It’s nice that adults know some things. Anyone else notice that people these days absolutely refuse to grow up. I really don’t understand how any tech can be their tech seeing as they have done nothing off any importance yet.
Hey! You old folks! Get the hell off my lawn!
So age 30 will be the new onset of mid-life crisis.
Maybe someone should inform him that “his” tech is made “adults”. So it’s really our tech.
ya, its a bummer when mom sees you and your friends talking about drugs and looking like whores.
Is it just me or is this Deja Vu?
Didn’t someone already do this piece?
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#7: Yes, as Ed just pointed out to me who posted his last week. That’ll teach me to go out of town for work to a place with extremely limited Interwebitube access!
Hey, kids, get off my
lawnInternet!Wow. A lot of spelling and grammar errors in the comments today.
As an old person who has been using the internet since before it was actually called the internet, way back in the 80’s, you know before many of the youngins were even born, I have to say….
Get off my lawn! I wrote most of the software you youngins are claiming as your own.
Lol newbs.
Welcome to the real world kids. Just because it’s cool that you can stay in touch with our friends also means Mommy can too. Look bud these phones have GPS that will let us find each other. The next day Mom ask why he was at the Jill’s house all night and not Jimmy’s. LOL
This story p’s me off more this time than the last. My 19 y.o. knows how to message and p2p and google. Big deal. But when he needed somebody to set up nero mediahome on our LAN so he could use the PS3 to see photos, videos, and listen to mp3, he came begging for help from this oldtimer. Kids these days don’t know squat, and they don’t have the passion for the technology we had.
So true, “amodedoma” a little bitter, but true. Anyway – this cartoon sums it up nicely;
http://xkcd.com/274/
I’ll bet my last punch card that this is just a fad.
As an over-30-er that started out with 300 baud modems and BBS’es when I was 11 (you know, “snow 6 feet deep, uphill, both ways”), I’d have to say the kids should get over it even though I can empathize a little.
I have to say I find it more annoying when my 14-year old brags about some “new thing” she’s “discovered” on the internet/computers I’ve known about for years or over a decade. It was much simpler when my retired parents learned how to use e-mail. They don’t send me glittery-text comments on MySpace or forward stupid chain letters.
OMFG! All of a sudden, I am over fifty, and categorized a geezer! I am another one who has been using the Internet since before it was kewl, children.
NOW GET OFF OF MY ‘NET, DAMMIT, or I’ll have to throw yew d00ds an uber 1337 beating! Take notice… You been pwned!
I’m over 50 and I’ve been using texting and e-mail before some of these kids were born. How did it get to be their technology?
I’m “feeling uncomfortable about” kids “encroaching on what” I “consider” my “technological space.”
Imagine how any of those kids would feel if they find their dad or their granpa or both in http://www.daddyhunt.com 🙂
Screw this kid, I have underwear older than him. I would have been his daddy if that dog hadn’t beat me over the fence.
I’m over 50 and was using the Internet five years before there was a World Wide Web (grad school). Some of you may remember Usenet (still around) and Internet EMail…using “pine.”
There’s a twenty-three year old works with me, and he’s made the same tired old comment about old people “don’t know tech”. But he can’t set up a simple wireless network, and the hard drive puked in his off the shelf HP Crapmaster, and he’s waiting on them to send him a box, so he can send it back to them so they can put a new hard drive in it. But he still doesn’t get it; he thinks that’s the way the world is supposed to work. The kids are quick to get into anything that’s been super hyped by the marketeers as being “cool”, but most of them don’t know jack.
The more things change the more they stay the same…
In the 60’s we all said you couldn’t trust anyone over thirty, and everyone talked about the “generation gap”.
Or, as Dylan said “I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now”.
Actually, I’m older now and hopefully much less patronizing towards people of all ages.