So I’m Millennial Generation Shadduck. My grandpa Norm established the insurance agency with pens, paper, a telephone, and word of mouth. My dad and my uncles continued my grandpa’s hard work, but began to transition to computer software, cell phones, and automated billing. Me…. I’m the one who answers the “old guys’” questions regarding technology, and smirks a bit while I blog, text and Facebook all at the same time. With much chagrin, they thought perhaps if I wrote a little on a blog, they would “get the hang of it” and take off . I’m sure, with their techno savvy, I will be here for a loooooooonnnnngggg time.
Let’s get back to the generation title for a sec. My generation is called the Millennial Generation, the Net Generation, and Generation Next. We could have been born anywhere between 1975 and early 2000’s, although it seems to me that a 30 year old is GENERATIONS away from my group, but hey, we have to start somewhere. Our “claim to fame” so far has been an intense familiarity with communication, media, and digital technologies. Boil that down, and yes, I have a cell phone, an Ipod, a laptop, and various gaming systems for different challenges. And yes, I’m using them all RIGHT NOW. We don’t call each other, or sit on “party lines” like my parents did when they were kids, we text eight or ten of us at a time to plan our days. We don’t talk face to face, we blog and email, using shortened “text talk” which reminds my Mamam of the Cockney Rhyming slang of her childhood, and it understood by no one over the age of 25! LOL We plug in, tune out, and turn on. But along with our techno eccentricities, we are the walking future. And unlike the human-in-a-costume aliens of all those thriller seeking sci-fi movies of yesteryear, we are here to help. Bwaaahhhaaahaaa….
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