Social Networking - and Digital freedom

With today's generation growing up with social networks and network-on-the-move-mobiles in their genes, 'my generation' (in the 30s and 40s somethings) are trying their best to cope up with this rapidly changing digital revolution. The hard reality is we will never catch up to the current 'teen' generation mental make-up, but YES - we can try to understand them (emphasis on the word TRY!).


For us, 'History' and 'Geography' meant learning about the Mughals, Freedom Struggle, the continents, oceans, weather and earth behavious. For today's teens - they have to reckon with the WWW first - understand what e-mail is all about (the other day my 14 Year daughter wonder aloud - who needs GMail when she already is living her life with Facebook!), what a simple HTML page meant to us in those days, how we were wonder struck with desktop machines, Win32/95/XP etc., ofcourse along with a dose of the old 'History' and 'Geography'.

So we do have have some cribbing to be done - justifiably, specially since some of us as so passionate about Open Source and Freedom. Came across a great blog that seems to reflect all my thoughts - and of course, the author has put it much better than what I ever could do. Do read - a must for Parents who dig digital technology !! :-)