http://www.owen.org/blog/79 Thoughts on development and beyond Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:50:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.owen.org/blog/79/comment-page-1#comment-310 Owen Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:56:46 +0000 http://www.owen.org/blog/79#comment-310 Ryan - That's a fair point. I may have overstated the younger generation's disassociation with email - but there is no question that it is not being used by younger people in the way that my generation used it. Ryan – That’s a fair point. I may have overstated the younger generation’s disassociation with email – but there is no question that it is not being used by younger people in the way that my generation used it.

]]> http://www.owen.org/blog/79/comment-page-1#comment-308 Ryan Sun, 14 Sep 2008 04:51:40 +0000 http://www.owen.org/blog/79#comment-308 I am going to have to disagree with the line "For people leaving university today, email is like carbon paper", unless I am already old at 23. I have a divide between formal and non-formal communication, and so do most of my friends. Emails now have more of the formality of letters, facebook is like texting over the internet. It is extremely casual. If I want to remember a piece of communication, it is emailed. Facebook is for throw away questions about parties. Also, maybe I am geeky to think about this, but I could never put my sole online identity into a silo like facebook. I am going to have to disagree with the line “For people leaving university today, email is like carbon paper”, unless I am already old at 23. I have a divide between formal and non-formal communication, and so do most of my friends. Emails now have more of the formality of letters, facebook is like texting over the internet. It is extremely casual. If I want to remember a piece of communication, it is emailed. Facebook is for throw away questions about parties. Also, maybe I am geeky to think about this, but I could never put my sole online identity into a silo like facebook.

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