Fear Of Change

I am a millennial—a person born into the age of technology and alongside whom technology grew as well. I remember learning to tell time with computer games during kindergarten. In second grade we were all taught how to use kid Pix, a program that was essentially Microsoft Word but with finger painting (or mouse painting, as it were). By middle school all students were required to take part in a program brought on by the public school system called iSafe, where we learned all about how the internet is evil and that you should never tell anyone your first or last name or sign up for any websites ever because someone was going to stalk you, steal your identity and kill you. Later that year, I signed up for Facebook.
Looking back, those panic-stricken authority figures and fingers wagging in my general direction only made me want to be online more. I never understood the fear they had towards the general
Fear of change is normal and rational, but to what extent? When does this fear become detrimental to the evolution of intellectual progress in the online world? By shunning the progress made on websites through blogging and social networking, authority figures are shutting out the generation that is currently making the decisions when it comes to what is going to matter in the next ten years. Rather than insulting what they know to be the only way of life, older generations should be finding ways to integrate both analogue and digital text into the day to day lives of the millennial generation. Give this generation a chance to appreciate the things that those of the generations before grew up with and maybe there will be a better likelihood of those things mattering in the future of society as