12-27-2018, 03:44 PM
I've been thinking about the social media era and how it has been a different experience for different generations.
As an Xer, social media reconnected me to a lot of people in my past. It allowed me to make a mid life assessment of myself in relation to peers I had not seen in years or even decades. It has felt like being folded back into my past. How might it be different for other generations?
Boomers have experienced an even greater technological leap than Xers in terms of what can be done with smartphones/constant online presence compared to how they lived in childhood. I do know some Boomers who are more active on social media than I am - they tend to be the ones who travel a lot, which they can do because they are retired.
Millennials remember the world before smartphones and social media, but they have encountered this era at a younger age - with different life priorities.
Homelanders are the ones who are fully in the social media age. Their entire lives are recorded on Facebook - from when they were in the womb to the latest Christmas pictures.
So what is it like for each generation encountering the age of the social at their particular age location in history?
As an Xer, social media reconnected me to a lot of people in my past. It allowed me to make a mid life assessment of myself in relation to peers I had not seen in years or even decades. It has felt like being folded back into my past. How might it be different for other generations?
Boomers have experienced an even greater technological leap than Xers in terms of what can be done with smartphones/constant online presence compared to how they lived in childhood. I do know some Boomers who are more active on social media than I am - they tend to be the ones who travel a lot, which they can do because they are retired.
Millennials remember the world before smartphones and social media, but they have encountered this era at a younger age - with different life priorities.
Homelanders are the ones who are fully in the social media age. Their entire lives are recorded on Facebook - from when they were in the womb to the latest Christmas pictures.
So what is it like for each generation encountering the age of the social at their particular age location in history?
Steve Barrera
[A]lthough one would like to change today's world back to the spirit of one hundred years or more ago, it cannot be done. Thus it is important to make the best out of every generation. - Hagakure
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[A]lthough one would like to change today's world back to the spirit of one hundred years or more ago, it cannot be done. Thus it is important to make the best out of every generation. - Hagakure
Saecular Pages