The Baby Boomers

Baby Boomers
I could not agree more with the article, “Social Networking Demographics: Boomers Jump In, Gen Y Plateaus" by Steve Rubel. The article reminds me of my mother always asking me questions about developing technologies, such as iPods and Mac books. It’s frustrating to me because I can never explain anything simple enough for her to understand, and I always try to explain it differently but she just doesn’t get it and I end up just doing it for her.

I honestly see the connection between baby boomers using these technologies as opposed to generation y not. The main reasons being that the technology is stable, in other words, once you learn how use twitter, you know it and once you know something you can become comfortable with you. Generation y is more interested in evolving technologies like facebook.com and halflife.com.

Halflife.com is a gaming community if you will. It’s community of people, (of all ages), who enjoy to play games and chat with people who also enjoy the same thing. The cool and interesting thing about gaming communes is that you will often encounter many well developed computer technicians in them. For example, many of the people that I know are computer science majors and that’s where they usually spend their time, in gaming communes.

The main thing I’ve encountered with the baby boomer generation is people’s parents using facebook. The primary complaint is always the same; people’s parents are trying to befriend them. The reason that people don’t want their parents want as friends is because they don’t want them knowing their personal business. This is a very understandable concept because I don’t want my parents knowing what I talk to my friends about. I think that I even heard Dr. Atkins talk about their grandmother trying to befriend them on his social net work.

In conclusion the baby boomer generation will always grasp on what they can just like I will when I get to old to fully comprehend what’s going on in the world around them.