I'm 53 and I love social media and the internet. I have a degree in IT, enough industry certifications to network a small country and have helped build a whole TAFE campus's IT infrastructure over 15 years with my boss. It's like anything, it's good if used correctly in moderation to enhance a person's life. I grew up without the Internet, but I remember all the issues I had without it in the world of analogue before the digital revolution. Especially at school, teachers, parents and adults in general had full control of our knowledge base. They could tell us anything and we had to take it as fact as there was no internet to check up on it. You'd do a school assignment and there was only a small variety of books available on the subject and everyone would read the same thing. Now you have a world full of knowledge. You can research so much, talk to people about your subject from all over the world in an instant. This has all reduced the generational knowledge gap and taken away much of the power adults had over us a kids. I for one love the internet, even with it's flaws and horrible aspects and social network trolls and abusers. There are days that I'm happy not to even log on, but mostly I just imagine the wondrous possibilities that it will develop into as new generations get behind it. And computer games... .omg what an incredible evolution they have seen and kids, particularly women are behind some of the best RPG's coming out now, they are like interactive novels, just amazing!
