This is so true!!
Yesterday I was watching my dad check his email and my uncle sent him a message that seemed pretty funny to him. Then he told me to come check it out, the email was a pretty long one. It basically was saying that the younger generation has everything so easy, but to say this you had to be at least 40 years of age. There were about 25 examples; mostly all of them were regarding the technology we use every single day.
“I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!” That’s just one of the examples this email describes, and another one is “There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!” This email is basically dissing our entire generation and all of the technology that makes life “easy” for us. Technology now a days has its problems though; as many of you can contest finding a credible source is difficult and for someone who gets caught stealing music off the internet faces thousands of dollars in copyright fines.
Our generation does have many advantages over the generation over 40, from having cell phones that have many features such as call waiting, texting, and caller id to internet and all of its features. This generation on the other hand is probably easier than the one mocking us, but they survived with what they had and we will do the same. The middle aged man is saying our lives are easier and just like the title of the email “This is so true!” I believe what he’s saying, but I try to deny the truth because that’s what his generation did and that’s what I’m going to do.
I am 32 and I can identify with the card catalog thing. Although, beginning when I was in elementry school we did have computers in the building (with green screens and white lettering).
It has been cool to see technology come so far.
I hate it when adults tell us that our generation has it so easy. They are such hypocrites because in reality their generation had it easy compared to the previous generation as well. And so on and so on. In reality, every generation is goingh to be esier than the generation that came before them.
I think that is false we just have more advance forms of what they for example. a I-pod is just a more advance form of a Walkman and the internet is just a bunch of electronic books and magazines combined, they had the library and telephone back then. for the stealing its the same just new ways to steal have just been developed when tec advanced.