Friday, November 18, 2005

Generation Y

It's crazy the difference between Brock and me and the girl that travels with us, Stephanie. We are 29 and 30. She is 22. Her whole world is online. She has a blog and a MySpace. She text messages people all day. She text messages people over a hundred times a day sometimes. We had the bmx team guys and Stephanie and her friend over at our house one night. They are all in their early 20's. Brock called me into the living room to look at how this generation communicates. They were all 5 sharing a couch, yet they were not speaking. They had laptops out and were text messaging each other or talking to someone on their cell phones as well as the TV was playing in the background.

The internet went mainstream when I was a senior in college. I remember my best friend and I went to the computer lab to try a "chat room." We ended up chatting to each other. We were sitting right beside each other. I thought it was lame. I entered college with a typewriter. There is only a few years separating Stephy and me yet a world of difference. Chad has an interesting post on this subject www.chadjarnagin.blogspot.com.

4 comments:

Amber said...

I'm 26 and I still remember no cell phones at all, then car phones, which I thought were the coolest thing! Now, if you don't have a cell phone you are wierd! I sometimes wonder how we ever found each other in a mall? It's really crazy and pretty silly if you ask me that someone always has a cell phone glued to their head. Why do we feel that we have to be in CONSTANT communication with someone else, when all we really need is to be still and listen to God! I ask that and yet I have a cell phone and wouldn't know what to do without it!!!

stephanie said...

are you talking about this one time:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y36/stebooty/stephsbirthday2005001.jpg

haha.
wow.
that's sad that i even have a picture of that moment!

stephanie said...

oh wait, that didn't work...

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y36/stebooty/stephsbirthday2005001.jpg

AUNY said...

I saw a 12 or maybe 13 year old girl the other day walk outside of a restaurant to talk on her cell phone. I can just picture her sitting at the table and saying to her parents, "Excuse me, I have to take this call."