Friendly Fiends

Who am I, and what do I do? If you think about it, those are the questions that truly define a person. However, what defines an age-group? A defining characteristic of our generation is the dependence on technology. After a close examination of my own digital habits, I'm going to broaden my horizons a bit, and examine my classmate's habits as well. In all reality, we've all got close to the same habits. . . . . Facebook, email, academics, and the personal realm. For each of us, the person realm exists, but varies, obviously, due to what we do and do not like. There are two common factors with actual website groups, and that is Facebook and various email providers. Our desire to not only stay in contact with those that we know, but to connect with those we don't know, appears to be a driving facet of this generation. The academic websites seem to be straight across the board as well, but that makes perfect sense, as this IS a university. :-) Not only do we frequent them, but amazingly enough, we frequent the same ones! *gasp* The coincidence! In the personal realm, we appear to split into three catagories. . . . . Funny, news, and knowledge. We seek entertainment or laughter, we seek current events, or we seek personal knowledge. As noted earlier, our realm of personal knowledge varies person to person. Reoccurring themes seem to be music, finances, and sports. As far as actual habits, we all appear to be compulsive multi-taskers, with an ability to be constantly learning. With a quick trigger finger for Google and Wikipedia, we shall conquer the 21st century!