1. Calibri is the worst font of all time. Second only to Comic Sans.
2. If you are currently over 45, you are 100 times more likely to double space after a sentence.
3. Everyone knows their best selfie angle- every one.
4. The class of 2005 may be the last cohort that didn’t have Facebook (or Myspace) in high school. That developmental divide will become more clear as time goes on.
5. Kids today (by that I mean college students) don’t know what the internet sounded like in the new millennium. If you’re one of those individuals, please follow this link to educate yourself. If you’re my age, follow this link to feel the nostalgia of your early childhood (30 seconds of pure throwback).
6. 90’s kids miss free AOL trial CD’s and AOL instant messenger. I’ll also throw in that I miss Myst and Encarta.
7. Seniors are pretty adept at technology- its impressive and another testament to human adaptability.
8. Spell check has destroyed our ability to spell. I also blame with thesaurus for killing our word retrieval skills.
9. Increased mobile phone use has resulted in worse working memory skills in our generation than older adults, I’ve seen it in my studies too. When was the last time you had to remember a phone number? I bet the only one you remember is the home number you grew up with and 911.
10. As Anne Lamott says in her TED talk that inspired this blog, pretty much all technology glitches can be repaired if you unplug, wait 30 seconds, and re-plug.

 

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*Bonus tech truth: When you see a typo you look at the keyboard and judge someone’s competency by the distance between the key the did hit and the key they should have.