Generation gap referring to differences between people of a younger generation and their elders, especially between a child and their parent's generation.
Thinking of my mom being alone in our flat on her recent vacation in Bahrain when my sister and I are both at work. Doing our house chores, television and telephone are her outlets on completing days when she was alone.
My mom had her secretarial course in college in the year of type-writers.
I remember Mr. Postman's delivery of letters takes seven to fourteen days.
Comes next the voice tape-recorded messages are being sent., instead of letters.
Pagers then used by business "on-the-go" people, receiving messages wherever they go. The use of the landline phone still needed to communicate to the operator and send the message.
Cellphone came, the one with long antennas and bigger phones available only from a few major telecoms, followed by more designs, specifications of phones.
Same thing from personal computer 'desktop" to a laptop, to a netbook, to the palm-sized iphone.
Generation of technology is fast changing.
My mom had to learn how to use a mobile phone in order for us to contact her wherever she goes and thus for her to send us SMS when only a few seconds count to reach its receiver.
Home, mom used to have someone to call her when yahoo messenger is set for chatting.
In Bahrain, she has to learn how to operate the computer by herself when we are at work. My sister and I encouraged her. It was just like a bigger size of a cellphone and it is just like sending SMS when chatting. Video calling from the laptop is simply like calling from a mobile phone. From power on, log-in into Facebook, browsing till power off, all had been taught to her.
It was fun for her exchanging messages and receiving comments on her posted photos on Facebook.
I was just behind her for the instructions. She has to learn to press the keys by herself. She at times got confused where the letters are and lost her patience for not remembering all the given instructions.
There are non-stop and continuing on developing technologies. We have to learn to adapt to the world were we in. If it is not learned in the first instance then try it again. It takes time and practice, add to that the patience to master it.
