Since their birth
1.
Google has always been there, in its founding words,
“to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible.”
2.
They have never licked a postage stamp.
3.
Email has become the new “formal” communication, while
texts and tweets remain enclaves for the casual.
4.
They have grown up treating Wi-Fi as an
entitlement.
5.
The announcement of someone being the “first woman” to
hold a position has only impressed their parents.
6.
Color photos have always adorned the front page of newspapers.
7.
Cell phones have become so ubiquitous in class that
teachers don’t know which students are using them to take notes and which ones
are planning a party.
8.
Their parents have gone from encouraging them to use the
Internet to begging them to get off
it.
9.
If you say “around the turn of the century,” they may
well ask you, “which one?”
10. When
they were born, cell phone usage was so expensive that families only used their
large phones, usually in cars, for emergencies.
11. TV
has always been in such high definition that they could see the pores of actors
and the grimaces of quarterbacks.
12. The
proud parents recorded their first steps on camcorders, mounted on their
shoulders like bazookas.
