A thought

I had a thought this morning while on the bus. I was looking at an ad for the new Blackberry, and it occurred to me. We "older folk" - which is to say, those of us that grew up before all of the social networking technology came about - can often be heard to say something along the lines of, "When I was young, I would never have posted such and such out there for everyone to see." This, of course, in relation to a lot of the TMI (Too Much Info) photos, Tweets, etc that teens and twentysomethings seem to put all over the 'net.

The fact of the matter is, though - had we been able to, and it were as normalized as it is today - most of us would have. It's a natural thing to want to tell all of your friends about the dumb stuff you just did, or about that really cool thing you just saw, or whatever. And how many times have we wished we could have just taken a picture to show them? The biggest generational difference is that the kids these days (did I really just say that?) actually can. And they haven't yet learned the wisdom to say that maybe they shouldn't.

Just random thoughts from my brain.