I personally am not a fan of the Facebook generation. It saddens me to think that people my own age can't have a conversation in person, but they can type, text, or tweet about it. I'm all for technological advances, but I think that it's gone too far when people can't speak face to face.
I'd be a liar and a hypocrite to say that I don't take advantage of the online world. In my own life I find Facebook and texting to be handy, but I find that it becomes addicting. As my fellow classmate, Bernice, pointed out last week: texting is dangerous while driving! Are we so lost and consumed in our other world (Generation F) that we are willing to risk our lives and "reply" or "update a status" while driving? I think we are.
Even at my job this week my children were complaining that an employee spends all of his time on the phone "texting and tweeting". We can't even work without being attached to our phones and the online world. These things can be helpful and save time, but they can also have negative consequences as well.
What are your thoughts? Is Facebook a good or bad thing? What parts are really helpful about the online world? Or would we be better without it?
I know it's been great for me, but I also know how negative it has been as well. Millions of people survived without having an online world, so we should be able to as well. Right?
That's a valid point. If we struggle with using the technology responsibly now, how could we possibly use it in the work place as the article proposes.
ReplyDeleteI agree that learning to communicate in person is a necessary part of our education. Online can be confining when it overwhelms the here and now we are avoiding experiencing. A time and place for everything, but everything in its time and place. Learning tech etiquette will be the next seminars young business people attend.
ReplyDeleteIn a way its not so much that we "survived" w/p FB, it's that it is here... NOW. People, like the guy who Tweets and texts his way through the work day, will need to learn new etiquette, "netiquette"? in order to participate in both the F2F (face to face) world and the virtual one.
ReplyDeleteFrom a recruiting perspective, the areas I see "Generation F" struggling is in phone etiquette, rather than online or face to face communication. I sometimes wonder if it's because our phones have become so ubiquitous that people forget that they are having a professional conversation.
ReplyDeleteI love facebook but like you said its addicting. Actually tomorrow my the director of my center is having a meeting with the assistant teachers in my classroom about being on their cell phones too much at work and that when you are texting or on FB you are not supervising the toddlers. Its bad when you have to babysit adults who cannot follow the no cell phone policy... I let the teachers in my room have fun and bend the rules but enough is enough- bye bye phones
ReplyDeleteWow, it's hard to think about surviving without internet access. It seems that more and more of my life revolves around the internet, from online banking to my netflix list, and socializing with friends.
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