Comments on: Is there a gap between those who are tech savvy and those who are not? http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/networkhub/is-there-a-gap-between-those-who-are-tech-savvy-and-those-who-are-not/ A SearchNetworking.com blog Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:01:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Leah Rosin http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/networkhub/is-there-a-gap-between-those-who-are-tech-savvy-and-those-who-are-not/#comment-98 Leah Rosin Thu, 29 May 2008 18:38:29 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/networkhub/is-there-a-divide-between-those-who-are-tech-savvy-and-those-who-are-not/#comment-98 I have a couple of friends like this -- my brother had an email address through hotmail that he checked so infrequently that Hotmail finally dumped him... and that was his primary email contact! Now he's in law school, and so he has an email through school. I sit here and wonder how people do it. I have my personal email through gmail that I stay connected to people with, I have my Yahoo! account that I've had since 1996 that I use for registering with web sites and companies, and I have MySpace email, work email, and email for my web site (which I admittedly don't check that often). But really, I don't know how you could use the Internet regularly and not have email. Also, I agree that being technological means that you're connected with society and people... and not being technologically savvy means that you likely are limited to local people for your connections/interactions. As a regular blog reader and MySpace stalker (just kidding, but ya know, I have friended all my old classmates), I feel a lot more in touch with the world around me than I could possibly feel with limited old technologies. I also have an interesting perspective, as I grew up in a household with no phone and no internet. That's right, no one could CALL ME until I was in college. So I know what it's like to be "off the grid" and lack connections... for a Type A personality: it sucks. I have a couple of friends like this — my brother had an email address through hotmail that he checked so infrequently that Hotmail finally dumped him… and that was his primary email contact! Now he’s in law school, and so he has an email through school. I sit here and wonder how people do it. I have my personal email through gmail that I stay connected to people with, I have my Yahoo! account that I’ve had since 1996 that I use for registering with web sites and companies, and I have MySpace email, work email, and email for my web site (which I admittedly don’t check that often). But really, I don’t know how you could use the Internet regularly and not have email.

Also, I agree that being technological means that you’re connected with society and people… and not being technologically savvy means that you likely are limited to local people for your connections/interactions.

As a regular blog reader and MySpace stalker (just kidding, but ya know, I have friended all my old classmates), I feel a lot more in touch with the world around me than I could possibly feel with limited old technologies.

I also have an interesting perspective, as I grew up in a household with no phone and no internet. That’s right, no one could CALL ME until I was in college. So I know what it’s like to be “off the grid” and lack connections… for a Type A personality: it sucks.

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