Maggie Conto wrote @ April 24, 2008 at 1:13 pm

Our family didn’t get our first computer untill I was around the age of four or five years. Now, at the age of 17, I pretty much know all the ways to handle a computers and move threw websites.
As for my oldest sister, who is now turning 26, finally getting the ways of the computer, did not grow up around them. She is just getting use to all the aspects that a computer can bring and all the cool things you can do.

Same goes for my parents. I know that I know more about computers than they do. They just know the basics.

One day, I was on Myspace (which is a huge communcation website, along with Facebook), and I was using HTML codes to write in differnet fonts and colors. My mom, nor my dad, has any idea how to use those. As for my older sister, she is still young (26 is still young)and learning. She had just recently got a Mypsace because I showed her all the cool layouts and pretty colors you can play with, while on myspace.
My parents manly use their computers for reports, maybe, and bills and what not.

These websites, though, can be very dangerous. Preditiors have been a major scandle because of the face that Myspace and Facebook has alerted them to manly young girls. Girls may either think the person they are communicating with is one of their friends, or a harmless guy. When in reality, the person who they are talking to may be a sex defender/s or even a killer/s. So, I suggest that parents keep their kids off those sites.

Yes, that might be hypercritical because I have Myspace and Facebook, but I do not talk to anyone I don’t know. And even if I think it is one of my friends, I still do NOT give out any personal information like my telephone number or address. Not even my highschool. Not to menton, my myspace is on private. I know that their are ways that people have hacked onto peoples accounts, though, and that is why my account is fake. Nothing of it is real.

Not only does Myspace and Facebook bring problems, but so does IM and Email. It brings alot of cattiness and drama amongst girls and boys.

Myspace, Facebook, IM, and Email do not only bring bad situations into the world. They also bring good. Some friends are rekendled because they might have found eachother on one of these devices. I’m just saying, be careful.

So growing up with computers, I have done. Well, from ages 8 and up. I have learned alot of new, cool things to do, and even different ways to research. I even send my teachers my homework, or projects, in an email instead of write them. Music is also a big part of my life, and I get most of it from a computer.

Computers have taken a big toll in my life and I appreciate that they are here.

Ps. Sorry if this is hard to understand. All my differnt ideas where scrambled and thrown out there.

  Leigh Ann S wrote @ April 25, 2008 at 12:44 pm

I have grown up with a computer around my house, too, but only got on sometimes to play kid games from a cd. I wasn’t allowed to use the computer much (I think my parents were afraid I’d break it), which was fine since I preferred to play outside, watch tv or read in my spare time. My youngest sister is in third grade (still at the age where I was sort of taught to type at school but never used the skill) and knows how to use microsoft word, powerpoint and frequently gets on the computer to play webkinz. I could not have done any of this at her age… What I find interesting, though, is that her handwriting is ten times better than mine was and she can write in cursive- I forgot how. But I hope that most people remember in the future so that cursive doesn’t disappear completely and is only a fancy computer font.