Comments on: Memed Digital

By: Rochelle

Rochelle — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:02:33 +0000

Are you using WordPress? It’s a wordpress plugin called WP Cumulus. I love it too, so pretty!

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:37:36 +0000

I LOVE your tag cloud, by the way! what’s the plugin? Would love to have it on my site…

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:36:42 +0000

I’ve never found the generational divide true either. My husband is 60 years old and has been completely taken by computers and new technologies since he got to use a computer in the early 1970s. His daughter, on the other hand, although she was born in 1983 and has had computers and technology around her all her life, is not at all computer literate. I mean, she does the basic emailing, web browsing, and facebook-posting but her knowledge ends there. And despite their young age, I’ve found that some of my students have as much trouble (if not more) logging on to blackboard as some faculty have.

So maybe they learned how to use a mouse at a younger age, but that doesn’t mean they are interested or comfortable with new technology.

By: melanie

melanie — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:47:50 +0000

I love this post. Great job. I’ve been looking for a cohesive statement/argument and you’ve done well to articulate the problems with this thinking.

I often think of James Dean and the creation of the teenager in the 1950s. And I think about the invented social and cultural contexts we create for different generations. What are the benefits to these particular frames? I think we only need to look at advertisers, marketers and anybody else who profits from the creation of identity categories.

I especially like what you said about excusing oneself from participating in a meme. I need to think about this one because I often feel that way about the stuff younger people are into. When I see that it’s only younger people who are into it then I tend to assume that others my age are similarly not compelled by it. That’s where I fall into the trap.

By: vmazar

vmazar — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:24:43 +0000

“Don’t trust anyone over 30 ?” I’m sure you have said it or thought it. Well your now in the over 30 generation, get used it. Remember you’d say “when I grow up”, well now you have, and another generation is repeating those mantras.

The under 30′s live a marginally ‘different’ life than you. Different attitudes and different activities. They don’t own condos, go to plant shops or IKEA, jet off to conferences with Porter and probably not even married. All of which changes the mind set. Just by taking offence to the comment, your showing your generational difference !

Besides, your taking the whole issue too seriously, nobody is questioning your computer skills or interest, it isn’t personal.

You have two ways to deal with it. Agree with them, because you now have the maturity to really use the computer as a tool rather than just a game and/or ignore it, because it is going to be there for a long time, its has only just begun !

From an old guy who has heard it before.