Snark is my favorite language.
I am what the pros consider a "technology native" - I was raised in a time when technology, that is, computers were almost always readily available to me. I learned to type in elementary school, had my first email (amanda.lyon@netscape... yes, Netscape, don't you feel old?) in 4th grade, and had iMacs (the pretty, colored ones) in most of my classrooms by 6th grade. Throughout my childhood, I had video games on consoles (NES, SNES, and N64), an old computer for games on 5" floppy discs, handheld games (Sega Game Gear and Nintendo GameBoy Color), and I had the internet in my household by the time I was in 7th grade (AOL 3.0!). Granted, I was about three or four years behind most of the country because we were very poor, but I still grew up with this advantage. By my senior year, I had a TracPhone (because I could buy minutes for myself) and a personal laptop, which was purchased with the idea of getting me through college [spoiler alert: it did not last more than 2 years because it was crappy].
With all this in mind, we will return to the term "technology native". Technology now comes very easy to me. If I don't know how to do something or understand what it is, I can easily find a way around it or to find a way to learn about it. I rarely need actual assistance with technology, unless of course I am on a time constraint or am feeling too lazy to read a manual. ;-) Tech native also means it can be second nature to speak with emoticons. So. Like. Get over it. >.< =^*^= |