<p>I like writing in cursive. I don’t use it normally, but I can because they forced us to learn it in elementary school…seriously, every single “final draft” of every paper HAD to be in script, so it’s practically ingrained into my brain.</p>
<p>And I do wear a wristwatch, but it’s only for timing purposes (when I’m doing athletic training/fitness tests). Plus, my family had a corded phone until I was around 12 or 13, when it finally broke and we got a cordless phone. And I love email…especially since I had dial-up internet until I was 13, so I never used it before high school. </p>
<p>I also feel like older generations stereotype us excessively. However, one thing that I didn’t see in the article was that our generation in general is not only more technologically-savvy, but also more competent at technology. Although I’m not exactly as “modern” as the article would suggest, I find that technology is almost intuitive for me. Example: for part of an internship I did this spring, I had to help redesign a website that was using a new server. I figured out how to explore it in about 10 minutes - it was pretty simple - but I had to show my adult internship mentors two or three times, and some of them had to take notes. It’s the same with my parents - I fix their computers when they won’t print, won’t go online, etc. The thing is, for a kid of my age, I kind of suck at computers - I’m forever freezing them and I have no idea how to do any of the web programming, etc. of a lot of my peers. But it comes so much more intuitively to me, and to other people of this generation, that I feel a distinct difference. I think it’s a positive difference, too.</p>