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With this age group I had the pleasure of chatting with one of my friends whom I know uses the internet a lot.  My friend Brittany uses the internet for school, personal business and socializing with friends.  She is a student here at OSU and she is originally from California, so she has all her friends up and here and back at home.  She not only uses the computer to access the internet she also has an iphone so she is always able to get on the internet no matter where she is at.  That is the perk of being young is that we are faster learners when a new piece of technology, well some young people are, not so much me.  She sees the internet as a useful tool to help her with school and keeping in touch with peole back in California,  not only does she need to keep in contact with her friends she is also trying to get an internship for this summer.  It is easiest to communicate with companies via email due to conflicting schedules, and with an internship so hard to acquire right now staying in touch with people is even more important.

The internet has affected her life in a positive way, she is 2 years younger than I am, so she was exposed to a computer at a younger age than I was, and it shows.  She is more computer literate than I will ever be.  She is able to work on homework in the comfort of her own home rather than having to go to the library and search through shelf afte shelf of books looking for the information that she can find in a second on the internet.  The internet makes life a lot easier for young people because we have so much more information at the tips of our fingers and all it takes is for us to go out and fine it.  The internet hasnt changed the way she lives because she has grown up with it, and it is all she knows.  That is how most of Gen Y and the iGen will be, we are more capable of adapting to the internet and the newest technology.  Its weird seeing my 9 year old nephew pick up a cell phone and start texting, I barely knew how to use a regular house phone at the age of 9.

There is a vast difference between the 3 age groups.  The youngest generation was raised with computers in their homes, and it was our parents who bought those computers for us, and our grandparents are slowly bring computers into their houses.  Some people in the older generation still dont use computers, a lot of them do not see a point in buying one, they dont need to use the internet.  I have a friend who works at target and she regularly has to tell people that if the product isnt in the store then they can find it online, and a majority of the time the older people respond with “I dont own a computer” It shows that some people arent willing to change with the modern time.

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