So Much Change

I have been getting emails from my granddaughter who is 8.  It's hard to believe that she is actually 'typing' and knows how to 'get around' on the Internet (especially when I am still learning how to do it myself)! She already plays with her webkins 'on the net' and has a bunch of sites that she visits to play with her 'puppies' and cyberfriends! Her emails are always colorful and have plenty of little icon buddies  that she includes. Most of them 'move' as well! I am not sure where she gets hers and almost don't want to ask for fear of being 'not with it'! Although...she likely would feel pretty smart if gramma had to ask her something about the Internet!!  These moving ones I just found this morning!!

It's amazing what kids know at a young age now. I started taking typing in Grade 9!! How old was I? Well, I would have been 14! She's 8 and has been on the computer since she was 6 years old. Her younger six year old brother has been on it since he was four!! I started typing on an electric typewriter when I started working when I was 18! I know electric typewriters were out before then but... "I am just saying" ... technology is getting too much to keep up to.  I feel sorry for our older generation. It must be mind boggling!

I guess we just have to 'learn as we go' and not get too frustrated with things. It's not that it's so hard to learn, it's just hard to find someone to 'show you' or 'teach you' when the opportunities arise. I think getting a computer helps us get into the 'computer age' (it sure helped me) and makes us more 'savy'. Having said that, I do not have a blackberry or a whiteberry or a redberry (if there is such a thing!) or anything electronic. Oh...I do have a cell phone which I never turn on. Well... never say never, as the other day I guess I did have it on and forgot to turn it off. I was surprised to hear it ring   and can you believe it....it was a wrong number!!! Last week, in the middle of the day, in the middle of the shopping center, I got a call from someone on my cell phone who I didn't even know had my cell phone number!!! How do people find out these things.  Guess they are computer savy!!

Computers do take up your time, especially when you are blogging!  Not that I don't enjoy blogging, but with all the information you can access, it does lead you from 'one thing to another' and before you know it....an hour has passed!
 

Speaking of which...it is time to go have breakfast before it is lunch time! Enjoy your cyberspace!