my favorite Millennial Thing™ is when a group of us are standing around and talking and someone asks a question that no one knows the answer to and suddenly it’s a race to get out your phone and google it and be the first to know, and then someone starts reading the Wikipedia article about the thing aloud to everyone else, and what started as a casual conversation is now A Learning Opportunity and we all walk away a little more knowledgeable about a random topic
Like, Boomers hate when we do that, but I think it’s one of the best things about us.
So long as we have internet or a cell signal, all of the world’s collective knowledge is at our fingertips, and damned if we aren’t going to use it.
1. Gen X people did this a lot, but without having the internet on our phones, it was mostly us standing around drinking slippery nipples and wondering how the television worked.
2. All the Boomers I know are OBSESSED with using their phones to use the Google.
3. Even my Greatest Generation grandma appreciated the Google, even if she used, so to speak, a taxi (me) to travel on the Information Superhighway.
4. All librarians I have ever known, from 22-yr old Baby Librarians to Eldritch Geezer Cthulu Librarians love the information internet, and are so happy you can get it on your phone (please save the library terminals for people who can’t afford smartphones, okay?)
5. Why is this being framed as a divisive, generational thing, when virtually everyone I have ever met loves online search engines, wikis, and archives? (Maybe not the Google since they’ve stopped not being evil? But you get my point.)
TLDR: Using the Wikipedia or the JSTOR or (less evil) search engines is a cross-generational win.
#5 THANK YOU
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