Reaction to Growing Up Digital

I thought this was a really interesting thing to read. It was very cool to see what someone (namely an adult) thought about OUR generation for once. It was even cooler to find out this writer had good things to say rather than bad. We usually hear alot about the bad things our teen generation has to offer, but this book focoused on the good things, and valued our abilities with internet and technology. I thought it was funny when the author described how adults acted when technology and computers first were introduced. The author told some crazy stories about people not knowing how to properly control a mouse, thinking they could use White-Out to erase files on disks, and 'copying' and disk using a photocopy machine! At that time, i'm sure it wasn't as funny, but to me, it was hilarious. Very few young people in this highschool would be confused if someone asked them to do somthing using a computer or the internet. I thought that the author was right when he said that for our generation 'Technology is like breathing'. We don't question technology. We just understand it. The writer also said something about older generations, if they got a new gadget they would get out the manual to see how to use it, while our generation would just USE it. We figure it out ourselves and thats how we learn. It was refreshing to know that theres a book like this out there encouraging our generation rather than putting it down.