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My Colleague’s Funny Observations About Generational Tech Habits

I was emailing (Communisouras Rex-style!) with one of my business partners today and he was joking that he didn’t have a Twitter account, then sent this highly amusing treatise on how various generational cohorts communicate. My only revision would be Facebook Mobile for the 20-30 crowd. (What’s a little poke between friends at 1am on a Saturday night?) Enjoy.

If you’re 10-20 – you have a MySpace account and text everyone, even when you’re sitting next to them

If you’re 20-30 – you text friends with pictures of you being drunk at some other party/bar that they’re not at – you use email to send for business or to get a job

If you’re 30-40 – you text once in a while in spurts, have a FaceBook page and use your cell phone all the time, you have a blackberry or IPhone and love it, you have Vonage to save you money on phone calls when you’re home

If you’re 40-50 – the IPhone is cool but the typing sucks, so you still have a Blackberry, you have a Facebook page to keep in touch with your nieces and nephews and other young/cool people, you rarely text, you’ve heard of Twitter but you think it’s some GIRL thing and you use your cell phone most of the time

If you’re 50-60 – you have a cell phone and like it a lot – maybe you have a BBerry or an IPhone and think it’s cool to see your email account when you’re not at home

If you’re 60-70 – you don’t know the difference between dialup and broadband connection for your home computer, you might have a cell but only for phone calls and probably not an IPhone, you have no fucking idea why anyone would ever text anyone else or have a Facebook page, twitter describes someone who is an airhead

If you’re over 70-80 – cell phones are pain in the ass, you can’t hear anyone on it anyway, you have never heard of Facebook, text messaging, iPhones, Blackberries or any of that stuff – if your car breaks down on the 405, having a cell phone is very useful. What is Vonage anyways, isn’t that just the phone company??

If you’re 80 or older – you don’t give a shit about any of the above – a phone with a cord is just fine. You’re not buying a sweater this year because you might be dead before it really gets cold, so who needs technology …..

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