Imagine sitting in your car listening to a song on the radio that you haven’t heard in a while and then the DJ coming on and saying “Wow! That’ll really take you back a few decades” or when you wear something you don’t usually wear and your kids say “Mom, you don’t look so old when you wear that”
Well, an article that I read recently in the Wall Street Journal gave me that feeling. The article talked about the text generation and how the use of text messaging is going to separate out generations like nothing before. With gen x and y our big differentiator was a computer, even more specifically, the internet. Boomers and others quickly jumped on board because that was the way companies were being ran.
With texting, I can’t help but think its different – is there really going to be a societal shift from talking to texting? Is it really that much more difficult to speak than type? Even more so, is texting that much easier than sending an email? I am sure there are a million and one reasons texting is great and fabulous, but like those that didn’t see the computer making it big, I am not one of them. That is why today, I feel old.
