Comments on: Gen Y Growing Up Online http://www.willpate.org/2008/02/03/gen-y-growing-up-online/ Tales from a Gen Y internet guy Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:33:05 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Derek K. Miller http://www.willpate.org/2008/02/03/gen-y-growing-up-online/#comment-47934 Derek K. Miller Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:05:30 +0000 http://www.willpate.org/2008/02/03/gen-y-growing-up-online/#comment-47934 What's talked about in the documentary is the mainstreaming of something that's been around for some time. Before LAN parties, my friends and I had mass floppy-pirating sessions in our parents' basements -- in 1984. We also learned tough teen lessons about the public nature of online communications pre-web, on bulletin board systems, also in the early to mid-'80s. But those hazards and lessons didn't reach a large proportion of the adolescent population until much more recently. I grew up online, but 20 years ago there weren't many of us doing that. Now everyone is, and just as with television, comic books, rock 'n' roll, and other "crazy kids today" societal shifts, people need to learn their own lessons when they're young -- and most of them turn out just fine. With luck, those of us who've had the experience ourselves can help our own kids (both of mine have blogs already, and they're 8 and 10) figure out what's going on, but they remain the ones who have to do the figuring, and the learning, in the end. What’s talked about in the documentary is the mainstreaming of something that’s been around for some time. Before LAN parties, my friends and I had mass floppy-pirating sessions in our parents’ basements — in 1984. We also learned tough teen lessons about the public nature of online communications pre-web, on bulletin board systems, also in the early to mid-’80s.

But those hazards and lessons didn’t reach a large proportion of the adolescent population until much more recently. I grew up online, but 20 years ago there weren’t many of us doing that. Now everyone is, and just as with television, comic books, rock ‘n’ roll, and other “crazy kids today” societal shifts, people need to learn their own lessons when they’re young — and most of them turn out just fine.

With luck, those of us who’ve had the experience ourselves can help our own kids (both of mine have blogs already, and they’re 8 and 10) figure out what’s going on, but they remain the ones who have to do the figuring, and the learning, in the end.

]]> By: Alexandra V. http://www.willpate.org/2008/02/03/gen-y-growing-up-online/#comment-47835 Alexandra V. Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:43:49 +0000 http://www.willpate.org/2008/02/03/gen-y-growing-up-online/#comment-47835 Great article. As the gen-X sister of some gen-Y kids, this rang true. See also the Boston Globe article about all the tech keeping people from being bored and hence creative. Do you have thoughts on this? http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/03/09/the_joy_of_boredom/?page=1 Cheers! Great article. As the gen-X sister of some gen-Y kids, this rang true.
See also the Boston Globe article about all the tech keeping people from being bored and hence creative.
Do you have thoughts on this?
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/03/09/the_joy_of_boredom/?page=1
Cheers!

]]> By: Rommel http://www.willpate.org/2008/02/03/gen-y-growing-up-online/#comment-40275 Rommel Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:06:22 +0000 http://www.willpate.org/2008/02/03/gen-y-growing-up-online/#comment-40275 http://camoosta.com/content/frontline039s-growing-online http://camoosta.com/content/frontline039s-growing-online

]]> By: jakedahn http://www.willpate.org/2008/02/03/gen-y-growing-up-online/#comment-39232 jakedahn Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:47:49 +0000 http://www.willpate.org/2008/02/03/gen-y-growing-up-online/#comment-39232 Huh pretty interesting. Kind of strange to see a documentary setup about the internet and kids my age. Huh pretty interesting. Kind of strange to see a documentary setup about the internet and kids my age.

]]> By: Andy Howard http://www.willpate.org/2008/02/03/gen-y-growing-up-online/#comment-37028 Andy Howard Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:48:04 +0000 http://www.willpate.org/2008/02/03/gen-y-growing-up-online/#comment-37028 Interesting... watching a doco like that is like being on the outside looking in. It's made me think about my own relationships and how I maintain them. Being 25 as well, I completely relate to feeling closer to the teens than I do to most colleagues and business contacts. Yeah I'm with you on the game changing! Work isn't somewhere you go, it's something you do... and it doesn't matter where you do it. ROWE is a great workplace model, and lends itself well to remote working ;) Interesting… watching a doco like that is like being on the outside looking in. It’s made me think about my own relationships and how I maintain them. Being 25 as well, I completely relate to feeling closer to the teens than I do to most colleagues and business contacts.

Yeah I’m with you on the game changing! Work isn’t somewhere you go, it’s something you do… and it doesn’t matter where you do it. ROWE is a great workplace model, and lends itself well to remote working ;)

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