The Technology Generation

While I was on vacation I mostly stepped back from blogging and I rarely checked twitter or facebook- and really I didn't miss it (well after the twitching stopped that is).  But even with this break I was rarely seen without a phone in my hand.  My phone was busy taking pictures and videos and capturing the fun we were having.  I filled up my phone with videos almost everyday, having to dump them onto my computer nightly.

As I try to think back to a time (which really wasn't that long ago) when I didn't always have a phone or electronic device in my hand- it really is almost hard to remember.

My generation (I will be 32 this year) is quite a unique one.

I remember when we got our first VCR (that is the thing that plays tapes that have shows-what we had before DVD's- just in case you have no clue like my own kids).  I remember in kindergarten going up and booting up the Commodore 64- Command C- you would always first type to get it to do anything.  And then as a teenager we got Internet.  Everyone knew when you got on-line as the horrible screeching of the dial-up was loud enough to wake the neighbors.  I bought myself my first cell phone at the end of my freshmen year of college- yes not high school- college!  It was a pretty advanced flip phone that you would pull the antennae up when you were on a call- similar to this one

Basically as a child and really for over half of my life technology was a very minimal part of my life.

Now my children- they won't remember a day without computers, iPads and cell phones (and no- none of my children have their own phone).  It is just part of their world- as is Facebook for teenagers now days.  I don't know how many times I have found myself saying I am so glad Facebook didn't exist when I was a teen; with my track record of very short high school relationships, I would always be ping-ponging back and forth between "in a relationship" and "single".  I had enough drama without having to worry about what to set my relationship status to.

So I find myself, along with those close to my age in an interesting place.   A place where we can remember what it was like without it-- but young enough that it started to play a major roll in our lives while we were still young (early 20's).

Obviously I love and embrace technology.  I am a blogger and I am addicted to love my Apple products.  But sometimes- sometimes I can't help but think how nice it might be to get back to  simpler time.  A time when going on vacation meant you couldn't be reached, a time when you saved those big phone books as yellow pages were a useful thing, a time when you loaded your camera with a roll of film and brought a long a couple of rolls hoping that would be enough then having to wait and be surprised by what pictures you captured......

Sorry started twitching there.

I think I'll stick with what we've got.

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Since it is Tuesday I am linking up with some other great Tuesday meme's.  IA and Shawn's Talk to Us Tuesday and Stacy Uncorked's Random Tuesday