Who Me?

So here we have it. "supposedly" (pay careful attention to my use of quotation marks) "supposedly" I am a Generation Y. You know those tech savy, living at home until they are 30, iphoning, people born between  1981 & 1994 with the massive sense of entitlement and ego.

Now before anyone gets outraged by this statement, understand 3 things

1. I know this is a sweeping sterotype and there are obviously many exceptions. 
2. I did not create the stereotype, and am not the only one to share this view - check out most recent news publications and I'm sure you'll find articles expressing this sentiment.
3. This is my blog and my opinion and I am a Gen Y (but not one of those - I don't even have a mobile phone!).

Now I am not here to Gen Y bash. Really my main reason for this whole blog is that I am just getting into this whole web2.0 stuff - blogs and tweets and flickr and myspace/tube and facebooking etc. are a whole other world to me. One that I have happily avoided up until now. I have watched too many shows like Insight on SBS on identity theft to even consider doing anything in my own name!!

So why now you ask? (you? I mean seriously the thought that YOU could be someone in say Oslo, Norway using your precious time to read my boring day to day thoughts - bizarre and honestly quite troubling. Have they not got better use for there time? Like phoning there mum or a real friend that they established in the real world?? - Completing that Uni assessment - Discovering a cure for Cancer???)

Anyway before I am really get going.....I am discovering all this stuff now for the first time as a workplace hazard. I work in a library. (perhaps I should rewatch Insight before I publish this? is that too revealing??)

That;s another thing PUBLISH? it used to be you had to be a talented writer to be published???

Now you just purge whatever is on your mind and hit a button....

ANYWAY, libraries are awesome and to stay awesome we need to keep up with our clients and there needs / wants. And Web 2.0 is definately the way it's all going. So here I am doing my online tutorials and Learning How to Blog.

And you know what? I have to admit now that I have looked around this virtual world there are definately some things that excite me. Whilst I cannot see myself blogging and facebooking and tweeting on a personal level in so far as my library is concerned I see some big possibilities. I am passionate about promoting libraries and already my brain is spinning a million miles and hour thinking how I can use all this stuff. - And I'm only on my second tutorial!!

But for now that's it. I'm off to call my Mum - in the real world, on a real phone, the old fashioned way.