The Generation of Tomorrow

[jnghh]

My closest RL friend has just given birth to a baby boy and, less than an hour old, the kiddo already has pictures up on Facebook. (Congrats to kiddo's mom and dad!)

It just occurred to me that 15-20 years from now, when kiddo's dating-- the whole  "share embarrassing baby pictures to your potential significant other" is going to take on a

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[krisw]

A: I don't think I knew you were on facebook. How did that happen?

B: I boggle all the time about the storage media available. Remember when a computer with a 512 mb drive was big? And now I have an SD card with 4 gigs of space, and you can get thumb drives of 64 and more, the hard drive in this laptop has 500 gigs, and you can get a 1.5 or 2 terabyte hard drive for not all that much money, relatively speaking. My brain, it 'splodes.

C: my 3 year old (ok, almost 4. But 3 for now.) likes to send text messages and play games on my iPhone. I shall let that statement speak for itself, because it says a lot.

[livingmyth]

"Remember when a computer with a 512 mb drive was big?"

I remember that my first computer had a 12G hardrive, and I installed a secondary that had 13G. I also remember thinking there was no way I would ever fill that much space. :P

I just bought a netbook with a 160G hard drive, and an external drive with 500G (paid $70 for it). I STILL WORRY I'M NOT GOING TO HAVE ENOUGH SPACE. *facepalm* You know, because those Word documents, they add up so quickly. ;)

[krisw]

Maybe the generation of kids who've always known the internet will NEVER KNOW THE FEAR OF RUNNING OUT OF STORAGE SPACE! Whereas you and I will always be afraid of it, unless we have the absolute largest drives commercially available, and maybe even then. (wouldn't know. I keep wishfully eyeballing the 1, 1.5, and 2 tb drives...)

[livingmyth]

I will admit that I have wishlisted a WD Passport 1tb drive, just as a backup for my backup. I also would like to get one of those Dell Studio Hybrids (because everyone knows you need a desktop AND a laptop!). ;)

Am I the only one who doesn't trust the cloud? I can remember the world of pre-internet, and when I see all those techno-kids nattering on about Chrome I think "No! Don't trust the cloud!" I mean...geez, where does your stuff GO? What if the cloud fails? What if you can't get to your documents because you didn't back them up to your seven different hard drives? WHAT IF GOOGLE GETS HACKED AND WE HAVE TO GO BACK TO AOL?

*thinks perhaps there is something wrong with her brain*

[krisw]

Yeah, I keep wanting to back things up redundantly, too. I recently got a new laptop and we set things up to sync between it and my old desktop for backup purposes and I keep wanting to store my pictures somewhere *else* too, just in case.

[jnghh]

Wait, is redundant backups not done anymore? That makes no sense to me! D:

We have a few 500GB external drives (because yes, we fear not having enough space! how can this not be a real fear?), but don't want to buy the 1TB ones because... what if one of them fails!? You could stand to loose 1TB of data at one go. I fear we might go on a personal data overload, though.

[krisw]

well, it's been done here for ages and probably will continue to be done one way or another =)

[mondragone]

I have a friend who rages when anyone brings up the cloud. He's adamant about people taking care of their own data, and I have to say even if I didn't already feel that way myself, I would have agreed with him after hearing his arguments. I think any system where we give up ultimate control over our data unquestioningly is terrifying. It doesn't matter if they're probably not going to care enough about it to abuse their position of trust, they still COULD.

[jnghh]

Did I not mention about Facebook? It was roughly around the same time I got Twitter-- a sort of "if I'm going to fall into these social things, I slipped and slid head first into the murky depths". :)

I'm found at http://www.facebook.com/.

^_^

[krisw]

you can find me by searching lynnia at gmail dot com, or that should work anyhow