My Story: It’s hard for me to imagine life without technology. After all, I am a part of Generation Y, the age commonly referred to as the Net Generation. I was born around the same time as the World Wide Web, so I guess you could say we grew up together.
I remember the days of boxy computer monitors and when the slow, grey machine that my dad had in his office gradually made its way into my school and home. I began studying basic computer functions during “Library Time” at school and playing “Oregon Trail” for fun (awesome game, by the way). Computers were still pretty strange to me, though. They were just for playing solitaire or typing school papers. Everything changed when computers moved into the social world.
The Explosion: By late elementary school, all of my friends had become obsessed with AIM. Then everyone migrated to MySpace, and then Facebook, and now there is somewhat of an epic battle going on between Facebook and Twitter. Off of each of these networking explosions, there sprouted more connections to the music industry, advertising, business relations, etc. It seems social networking now affects everyone in some way.
