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I'm absolutely fuming right now having read a post online that's entitled "When I see my parents start to type in 'www'" . One of the comments said You've got to feel for these kids. They've got such a tough life and their parents' lack of understanding of how the Internet works must be a real burden to them. We should all have a bit of sympathy and try to understand how they feel.
The Facebook generation - to them us oldies are just an embarrassment...
Yeah right! I'm in my mid forties now and I often start by typing in www or http into the address bar. Come to think of it from my perspective it wasn't all that long ago when this was absolutely necessary. Kids these days seem to think they invented the Internet. The Facebook generation reckon they've got it all sewn up, to them us oldies are just an embarrassment. Well to hell with you lot! You know nothing!
According to some of the other comments on this post, they shake their head and they "face palm" when they see someone older typing in "www..." Well I've got news for you junior, it wasn't all that long ago when that was exactly what you HAD to do. These few years that are the basis of your life experience so far are just a drop in the ocean to people my age, and of course your long suffering parents!
My son is 19 now and I remember as if it was yesterday, rocking him to sleep with my left foot whilst I chatted to people on IRC via Telnet over a 14.4Kb dialup connection. That was state of the art back then and half the kids in that forum probably weren't even born! Google and Yahoo didn't exist, Microsoft still thought DOS ruled the world and thankfully - there was also no Facebook!
Things change quickly in the world of technology so let's see if they're still so smug ten or twenty years from now when the shoe is on the other foot.
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Whilst on the subject it’s the same for all technologies in use today including tablets, mobiles and games consoles. The technology used has been developed over decades and indeed the fundamental ideas are still very much in use. Take a car for instance it has the same basic structure in terms of shape and engineering as first developed by MB over 100 years ago. True components have been improved over the years but the same invention is there at the core.
Indeed modern cars have been development by people over the age of 40, along with consoles, mobiles, computers and even software (including modern social media sites). Even games software is being written by an older generation.
I work on the Eurofighter team and we average 50 years old, yet we have built the Worlds most advanced fighter aircraft. We are crying out for young engineers to come and join the party but they don't have the skills any more.
So if you're young, listen to your elders and learn from them and one day you may be able to take the World forward in quantum leaps as we have done for you.
I've never heard so much negative press associated with one web portal as I have with Facebook. There is bullying, suicide, murder, infidelity, all of which can be directly attributed to it. People have lost their jobs, had relationships destroyed, sued and been sued all over the inane ramblings on this diseased platform.
i've never been a member and never will be but it is almost the case now that I am unable to realise many consumer offers etc. because I'm not on it.
"Like us on Facebook to receive an additional 10% discount" etc.
It seems that the world has an obsession with this thing. Call someone a pervert etc.? That's fine! Call them anything you want actually but for God's sake don't 'delete' them on Facebook. That's the cardinal sin these days that's guaranteed to provoke a strong reaction.
Of course yes, I do accept it isn't the site itself that does these things. I know it is the people using it, but I am certain the world would be a more harmonious place without it.
People want too much these days, I was lucky to have a nice pair of trainers for my Birthday. I'm middle aged and quite glad that I'm not a teenager today.
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Facebook (FB, Tech30) is now worth more than $200 billion, surpassing that level for the first time on Monday.
September 9, 2014: 11:54 AM ET"
Why has such a load of junk, that makes nothing, and depends on people posting every intimate detail and drivel about their boring life, which is of no interest to anyone except themselves, got to be worth so much?
All smoke and mirrors!