Comments on: Parents to be educated about the Interweb http://www.polaine.com/playpen/2008/03/27/parents-to-be-educated-about-the-interweb/ Education, Interactivity, Play and Emerging Cultural Forms from Andy Polaine. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:25:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Andy Polaine http://www.polaine.com/playpen/2008/03/27/parents-to-be-educated-about-the-interweb/#comment-5636 Andy Polaine Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:52:54 +0000 http://www.polaine.com/playpen/2008/03/27/parents-to-be-educated-about-the-interweb/#comment-5636 <p>I don't think you've got a lot to worry about. You've got your own website, you are/have been a web designer. Look, you're even commenting on a blog. How modern can you get?</p> <p>That story from the 15 year-old about Facebook is great though. Mobile is where it's at for those kids. Or Bebo, which is crap.</p> I don’t think you’ve got a lot to worry about. You’ve got your own website, you are/have been a web designer. Look, you’re even commenting on a blog. How modern can you get?

That story from the 15 year-old about Facebook is great though. Mobile is where it’s at for those kids. Or Bebo, which is crap.

]]> By: toby grime http://www.polaine.com/playpen/2008/03/27/parents-to-be-educated-about-the-interweb/#comment-5635 toby grime Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:52:16 +0000 http://www.polaine.com/playpen/2008/03/27/parents-to-be-educated-about-the-interweb/#comment-5635 <p>thanks for that Andy, I am going over the linked reports now... good reading. I for one, with a 3 year old already feel left behind with the changeson the internet and eveyrthing attached to it.</p> <p>I was told last week by a 15 year old that Facebook was for old people that dont get out enough... maybe i am missing something. I don't even have a myspace page, maybe thats why they thought I was old and stupid... 'but I have my own website under my name...' no, not even that was cool enough.</p> <p>Even as an early adopter of things like the internet (1992 for me using a modem on my Atar 1040 ste, tho there was really nothing there) I feel quite out of touch with the internet in 2008. I mean, it takes time to be invoved, and i dont have time.</p> <p>People of my generation (i was born in 1971) were subjected to new forms of video games etc in the 80s and the net in early 90s, but hey, its all melted into a different beast now that its 2008.</p> <p>somebody stop this thing, i need to get off and my son is hogging youtube watching wiggles videos as he swallows all our bandwidth. time to kill my net connection.</p> <p>T</p> thanks for that Andy, I am going over the linked reports now… good reading. I for one, with a 3 year old already feel left behind with the changeson the internet and eveyrthing attached to it.

I was told last week by a 15 year old that Facebook was for old people that dont get out enough… maybe i am missing something. I don’t even have a myspace page, maybe thats why they thought I was old and stupid… ‘but I have my own website under my name…’ no, not even that was cool enough.

Even as an early adopter of things like the internet (1992 for me using a modem on my Atar 1040 ste, tho there was really nothing there) I feel quite out of touch with the internet in 2008. I mean, it takes time to be invoved, and i dont have time.

People of my generation (i was born in 1971) were subjected to new forms of video games etc in the 80s and the net in early 90s, but hey, its all melted into a different beast now that its 2008.

somebody stop this thing, i need to get off and my son is hogging youtube watching wiggles videos as he swallows all our bandwidth. time to kill my net connection.

T

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