“One thing that all of the Millennials have in common is
their utter fluency and comfort with digital technology. They don’t just
embrace technology, it’s a way of life” (Marketing an Introduction, Gary
Armstrong and Philip Kotler, 58). I do not
look at myself as a Millennial. I can get through the process of technology,
using computers, cellular phones, iPods, etc., but I have a really hard time
with it. Mostly I have blind luck or just get through it with common sense, but
once someone asks how or what I do to do what I did, I go blank because I have
NO idea what or how I did it. In a weird way it makes me feel like a cheat. Not
that I am cheating or anything, I mean, I’m getting through life right? But I
feel as though I am missing on a lot of what my generation does and knows. But
if you ask me how to do something “older” school, then I typically have no
problems getting through it. I spend a lot of time trying to make sense of
something on the technology side of life and I get more lost than necessary. I
learn a lot, yeah, but my mind just doesn’t work around that way of life.
However, with all that said, I DO know much more than many people in the X
Generation or Baby Boomers. So, I do fit in with my generation simply because I
don’t live a life without technology at every turn, but I cannot say I enjoy
it. I fear that someday in the future, our children and grandchildren and great
grandchildren will live a life they do not understand anything in because it is
all already done FOR them. I mean, look at photography. I remember taking film
canisters and using FILM to photograph, but I do not understand how it all
works. That is why I am in school. But even then, with only one or two classes defining
the “old” way of photography, it will soon become that there will be NO classes
on it. Photography will be solely digitized and for how amazing and fast
digital is, film has many upper hands that digital misses out on.
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