When it comes to games, my dad usually thinks that they are totally not beneficial and every time he sees me playing a Game he would go on ranting in the typical Singaporean style "Game, game, game, why you every time play game. Work never do........" Well I don't spend as much time outside as he would want me to, neither enjoying the fresh air and making myself pant, nor going around and trying to see the world for a much longer time then required, which pisses him off a bit.
Then my mother asked me to set up a facebook account for her, and once she was in she was totally lost and confused, and stopped going altogether.
From there I thought that the 60s generation just didn't appreciate all this, and that maybe the fact that they can't grasp technology as well as us 80s and 90s people results in them judging the things we do as wrong, or simply not the right way of going about doing something. In the same way I don't appreciate all the not-so-fresh air and panting and seeing the world and staring at it for days on end, but I don't say its the wrong thing to do, just simply a waste of my own time.
Today my mum's friends were over for dinner, and they were discussing about how they played Guitar Hero as a family with their kids, along with Facebook Apps like Geo Challenge. Then me and my brother begin to complain and say that we will never have an Xbox, neither would we have a gaming PC if it cost $20.
These leads me to the question that what actually leads people to be detached from the progress of technology, and see them as a bad thing altogether, as compared to being able to keep in touch with the world in terms of technology, and hence keep in contact with the younger ones in the family?
Then my mother asked me to set up a facebook account for her, and once she was in she was totally lost and confused, and stopped going altogether.
From there I thought that the 60s generation just didn't appreciate all this, and that maybe the fact that they can't grasp technology as well as us 80s and 90s people results in them judging the things we do as wrong, or simply not the right way of going about doing something. In the same way I don't appreciate all the not-so-fresh air and panting and seeing the world and staring at it for days on end, but I don't say its the wrong thing to do, just simply a waste of my own time.
Today my mum's friends were over for dinner, and they were discussing about how they played Guitar Hero as a family with their kids, along with Facebook Apps like Geo Challenge. Then me and my brother begin to complain and say that we will never have an Xbox, neither would we have a gaming PC if it cost $20.
These leads me to the question that what actually leads people to be detached from the progress of technology, and see them as a bad thing altogether, as compared to being able to keep in touch with the world in terms of technology, and hence keep in contact with the younger ones in the family?
