Blogging 2.1

Blogging. Becoming socially engaged. Being switched on.

It appears that being connected is no longer just the domain of Generation Y (and whatever they call the generation after us). Generation Y consists of late teens to 26 year olds, so I’ve been told. GenY is the iPod/ mp3, laptop, instant messaging, social networking, always connected generation. We think we’re cool, hip and suave.

So why do I find it so concerning when I see that my friends parents have joined Facebook? They’re the baby boomers. They’re our parents, they’re the ones that never seemed to get it, never understood how important it was to always be on MSN and how we could do our homework while listening to mp3′s, chatting, and watching the TV. Now they’re having conversations with their kids on their FB walls, checking out what their kids and friends did on the weekend, and probably doing background checks on everyone, all courtesy of them having found out how to be ‘switched on’.

What’s even MORE disconcerting is when my 86 year old grandma gets a computer and internet connection. Did they even have switches back then?

But order restores itself in the world when they come asking me how to send an e-mail. For the 52nd time.

So here I take up the mantle of blogging once again. To establish that yes, I am a GenY’er, and that I am more connected and ‘hip’ than my parents.

What has the world come to?