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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>+1 excellent stories…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Ipg-smz [mailto:ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mitch Wagner<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 17, 2019 3:02 PM<br><b>To:</b> ipg-smz@netpress.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Ipg-smz] Why I love Apple?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>My introduction to the peculiarities of digital immigrants (our generation) vs. digital natives (the young people) was 10+ years ago, in two incidents. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Our neighbors across the street had their granddaughter, then aged 14, living with them for a few months while Mom dried out, and they asked for my help setting up WiFi. Sure, I said, and configured their laptop and WiFi router. A simple operation, took me about 15 minutes, and yet the 14-year-old digital native was completely bamboozled by it. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I also advised the grandddaughter that it was not a good idea to have Facebook as her home page. Not if she wanted privacy from Grandma and Grandpa. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Second incident: At about the same time I joined Facebook myself, and one night, troubled by insomnia, I was in my home office doing random browsing through Facebook's "Suggested Friends" list. This was about 3 am. My niece, then a college freshman and 17 years old, came up on the list. I gave it a microsecond of thought, said "sure, why not?" and sent a friend request. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>This set off a MAJOR FAMILY CONTROVERSY. My niece went to her mother who went to my wife. My niece was concerned I'd be spying on her and reporting everything to her Mom. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I said to my wife. "Weeeeeeeelllll if it's just college bullshit, of course I wouldn't report it. If she said she got drunk last night and was puking and was sooooo hung over, well, kids do that in college and I wouldn't report that either. But if she says she met a 46-year-old man and they're soooooo in love and getting married tomorrow, yeah, I'd be on the phone to her mother so fast that it'd break the lightspeed barrier."<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>P.S. I lost track of the neighbor after both grandparents passed away. That family has had hard times and struggled with addiction; I hope the mother and little girl are doing well. As for my niece, she's a doctor now and runs a medical clinic in Baltimore!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;min-height:17px'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>-- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><a href="http://MitchWagner.com" target="_blank">Mitch Wagner</a> • <a href="http://www.Twitter.com/mitchwagner" target="_blank">Twitter</a> <span style='font-size:9.5pt'>• </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/mitch.wagner" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Facebook</span></a><span style='font-size:9.5pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></div></body></html>