Now, I have come to realize over the last few years that I am no longer part of the targeted audience I used to belong to. This has obviously made me feel, firstly a bit worried about feeling like this in my early 20s, and also concerned as to how to keep track of the new tendencies.
This whole thing started by me wondering how the older generations of my family felt about the most important communication device I own, my laptop (and therefore the Internet). My results were not shocking, the elder could not care any less.
A few months ago when I was teaching I wondered whether mixing my professional online life and my private online life was right…I still have no idea of what is the correct answer for this. I guess that teaching 15 years olds could be the clue to tell me that it is possibly wrong to do so (and best for me to keep away from or get added to facebook or randomly poked). I also read the other day to my deep discontent that my generation is not a digital-native generation. I knew it before I got to this article, but I had although hoped that not remembering most of my childhood could make an exception..apparently not.
So, I am a non digital-native female who worries about sharing her email address and social networking profile. How does this translate to those I work with? Easy: I picture my parents putting sellotape on videotapes in order to be able to use them again. That was the moment I thought my parents obviously were 100 years old and would never understand the magic of materialism. Now I reckon my students think I am not work a blog-post or a twitter update or a single smilie on msn…
Oh Dear..
