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A lot of hate is given towards Millenials regarding the ways we use current technology to do bad things, but hypothetically speaking, say when all of you were in your teens/20s you had the all the technology we have today, do you think it would really be that much different? As in everything from cyberbullying to hacking, to girls sending guys....inappropriate pictures to girls posting videos giving makeup/hair/fashion tutorials? By "you" I don't mean you in particular, just that there would be probably plenty willing to do it.
A lot of hate is given towards Millenials regarding the ways we use current technology to do bad things, but hypothetically speaking, say when all of you were in your teens/20s you had the all the technology we have today, do you think it would really be that much different? As in everything from cyberbullying to hacking, to girls sending guys....inappropriate pictures to girls posting videos giving makeup/hair/fashion tutorials? By "you" I don't mean you in particular, just that there would be probably plenty willing to do it.
I don't think the cyberbullying would be as prominent. And I think we would have more respect as to what we'd post (as in no shots of someone in the gym shower and snide remarks) but overall, yes, it'd probably be pretty much the same.
Spam would be probably more political.....end the war type stuff.
It's a whole new world, and all of those private moments you had at a party as a teen would be memorialized. I thank "God" I was born when I was and came of age in a time before every single dumb thing could be documented.
I feel sorry for the kids today - spied on within an inch of their lives and documented. No wonder there is so much depression and suicide. It's a horrible life for kids/teens today.
A lot of hate is given towards Millenials regarding the ways we use current technology to do bad things, but hypothetically speaking, say when all of you were in your teens/20s you had the all the technology we have today, do you think it would really be that much different? As in everything from cyberbullying to hacking, to girls sending guys....inappropriate pictures to girls posting videos giving makeup/hair/fashion tutorials? By "you" I don't mean you in particular, just that there would be probably plenty willing to do it.
Hmmmmm, when I was that age, I pictured creating a program to release into the phone system. It's purpose was to find a certain person's phone number and their address. When it found that data, it would call me.......and 100,000 people, report its find, then destroy its self.
OF COURSE, now, one doesn't need to go to such lengths....or dream about it...... One can just do a decent, if detailed, net search to find that person......if that person can indeed be found.
When I was much younger than that and watching things like Mission:Impossible, Topkapi, the Pink Panther, and so forth, I pictured, wrote about how to do heists but with the technology now, FORGET IT!
With the technology now with the youth back then, it would probably make me even more honest than I am now. About the only thing missing is.......
........that as a youth, I wouldn't be realizing that there is someone like me out there who is just a little bit smarter than I am who will probably bust me.
I'm glad that I had the internet without smartphones. We had a relatively wild west internet growing up - it was much less of a "walled garden" than what you have today.
I've been "aggressively online" since the mid-90s. I've had broadband since I was 13 in 1999. The internet exposed me to a lot of different things that I'd never have known about otherwise. For someone from a small town, Southern Baptist background, the internet totally opened my world up.
One thing I think about is how different my social/dating life would have been. I spent a lot of time on the phone. Also, spent a lot of money on long distance calls with out of state relationships. Meeting up with friends involved phone calls. Early on, that meant one of you had to be at home at a certain time. If something happened, and you were going to be late or not there at all, there was often no way to contact someone.
Then came answering machines and eventually pagers. I carried coins so I could use pay phones. Cell phones and texting would have changed things so much (I think I got my first cell phone about a month before I met my wife).
Dating would be so different with stuff like Tinder. I have some single friends using that in their 50s. Can’t imagine.
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In my first real job after graduate school I was introduced to the latest technology, the IBM punch cards. After a few years and promotions to a manager I was involved in updating to an online system, and soon after was among the first of our 2,000 employees to use an IBM PC, Apple MacIntosh, and Lisa. I ended up with a Mac with an add-on to make it act as a PC and also as an IBM 3270 terminal. While my work was mostly related to my job managing a utility billing system, I found the changing technology interesting and learned a lot of different software over the years, 3GL programs such as SAS, FOCUS, and recently in my last job SQL (SSRS), Jaspersoft and Tableau.
My point is that I have found technology to be a useful tool, and fun to learn, but have never become dependent upon the smartphone like the zombie-like people that I see glued to their little screen walking around. Yes, I have an Iphone but use it mostly for checking email and texts from family, and rarely talk on it. For surfing the internet I will use the Ipad or Windows notebook while sitting and watching TV.
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