[WEB4LIB] "Generation shifts" and technology

[Chuck0]

Sloan, Bernie wrote:

> In the earlier "Wikipedia" thread, Bill Drew seemed a little skeptical
> about the "generation shift" concept.

> I guess my point is that every generation has members who take to
> technology like a duck to water, and every generation has members who
> aren't particularly technologically adept, and who couldn't care less
> that they aren't.

This may be true of the older generations, but the younger generations 
breathe technology. I'm 39 and happen to work mostly with younger 
people. Take the Internet service Friendster as an example. I was 
updating my profile yesterday and was thinking about the demographics of 
the people who I know on that service. Most of those "friends" who use 
it are in their teens and twenties. People in their 30s use it somewhat, 
while it's hard to find anybody over the age of 45 on the service. 
Perhaps older people see themselves as busy people with more important 
things to do, but that doesn't stop older people from yammering away on 
cell phones all the time.

And my 70-year-old mother refuses to touch a computer.

Chuck