Just a short thought today.  My architect boss was complaining about “my generation” yesterday and how we don’t tend to have land-line telephones, but just use our cell phones.  I concurred–yes, many of us choose not to have two phone bills when one can put us into the poorhouse all by itself.  Then, he went on to say how we mostly text and email rather than use phones, anyhow, which basically proved my point that a land line is redundant…at least for single people.  He turned his rant to how we’re just too hooked up to the internet and it’s just plain ridiculous.

This is when I stood up for “my generation” by pointing out to him that, as a person who is attached to a computer by her fingertips, the internet has made for a very literate generation.  When I think of how much reading all of us do by way of Facebook, blogs, news sites, eBooks, Twitter, MySpace and whatnot, it’s staggering.  We’re reading and writing all the time.  We learn at the hands of spell check.  “My generation” is tuned in.  We’ve got the finger on the pulse of the world and we can tell you all about it in lightning-speed words per minute rates.

So, be proud all of you of “my generation.”  I am.

Now I’m going back to theonion.com for more worthwhile reading.