April 2 Activity

I agree about what the article has said about how different the world has been for people born within the last 30 years as opposed to the generation before them, but growing up around computers hasnt made everyone born in this era a computer wiz. When I think about the difference in generations regarding computers, my first comparison is between me and my father. He has no idea how to work a computer. He can barely even text. He uses a blackberry for business, and he really has mastered that, but if he recieves a text, it overwhelms him and he will not respond, even though it is basically the same exact process as responding to an email on his blackberry. Now with me, I think I can use a computer pretty well, but Iam no expert. I do what I need to, and I use it for all kinds of purposes, but when it comes to our last project, creating a website, I needed a little help, and thats where my buddy Adam came in to save the day. I know a lot more about computers and the internet than my father does, but I dont even know half as much as my uncle does, and he is in his 60s. My uncle John program and fixes MAC computers for colleges. He knows pretty much everything there is to know about everything electronic. Now even though he was born well before the Gen Y generation, he knows far more than I ever will. Although it is the common idea that us young people know all about computers, don't rule out the older generation, because even though some of them (my dad) know absolutley nothing, others like my uncle, can rule the computer world.