Re: Re OT Standalone defrag for Win98

["J. R. Fox" jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

"Yo Intl." wrote:

> The view is prevalent, esp. in
> >my generation, that "kids have grown up with computers; they all know
> >everything about them." Well, yes, they know how to point and click, drag
> >and drop. But I suspect the proportion of youths who really know what's
> >going on inside is pretty much the same as it is in their parents'
> >(though probably not their grandparents') generation.
>
> I can confirm that from our house. For our kids, computers are commodities like VCRs, and they have just as little knowledge of or interest in the underlying function. They just want to point and click and get done with. They expect to follow graphical babysitting instructions when doing anything new.
> Maybe we are the dinosaurs.

The funny thing is that some of them -- teenagers, mostly -- seem to *think* they know a lot about
computers, when in fact they know close to zilch. The minute something unexpected comes up, or
something goes wrong, they sure come a' running.


Jordan