Generation iY

This is a book that is focused on our generation and our future. I believe that some of the issues that the author talks about are true, but others are just unchangeable facts.

Technology is an amazing thing; it can lead to great success, but can also lead to great failure. How we choose to use it is up to us and our generation.

I do not believe in the way that they say we will be lost if they do not 'save' us. Sure, everyone at our age needs a little guidance as we decide who we want to become in this world.  But we all find our way eventually. I think that they are actually intimidated by how independent our generation is, and they are just looking to comfort themselves by saying that we need to be saved by them. How many of us have had to teach a parent or a grandparent how to use a computer or any sort of technology? This may be a scary fact for some adults; that the younger generation is having an easier time keeping up with the newest technologies. But yet, their generation is the one who has provided us with all of these advances in technology and continues to market a lot of it towards us.

 They say that we have grown up online, and that is completely true. But kids are not going out and buying their own computers and hooking them up to the internet themselves. The internet is our biggest resource; any questions, curiosities, and research can be answered with a single search and it would be crazy for us not to take advantage of it. But of course, the internet is not only used as a resource, but also a big portion is used daily for social networking. We can now talk to our friends and family with the touch of a button. This can be a very good thing, but also a very bad thing. It is good for the people who use it to stay in touch or just chat with people when they aren’t with them. The real trouble starts when people begin to use it as a wall to shield them from the outside world. It is a lot easier to say things to someone on a computer screen then it is to say it to their face; and too many people take advantage of that.

 I am sure that when generation Y was our age, making all the same mistakes, and just simply being selfish teenagers; their parents also thought that their futures needed to be saved. The world changes every day, but there are some things that never change. Parents will always feel the need to save and protect their children from the world, and there is nothing that we can do or say to change that.