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This week Stephanie spoke in her blog about how her younger sister has become network literate, purely through self-learning off YouTube. It made me think about how Generation Y have come to learn about network literacies where a lot of other generations get left behind. Take my Mum for example. The other night my Mum insisted I show her how to ‘check-in’ on Facebook. I was baffled at how she did not know how to do this. It’s not like myself and all of my friends had learnt how to ‘check-in’ on Facebook. This was implicit knowledge that we just… knew. So why was it so hard for my Mum and my other family members to grasp? Do they not have the same underlining curiosity that the ‘younger’ generation do with technology? Will I one day be as tech illiterate as my parents? These are all questions I think of on a regular basis.

I did have a laugh at Maddison’s blog post regarding coding and the HTML test that I just completed. Now that she mentions it, all I can think of when I think about coding is Mark Zuckerberg and The Social Network, geeks and uni students locked up in their bedrooms with servers and writing code. P.S The Accidental Billionaire (the book the film is based on) is awesome.

Brady’s blog post with pictures of Lego mini-figures represented as websites, is not only cute but hilarious! The Google one definitely gave me a laugh.