What is this World Coming to?

Current mood: blah

Who can I bore today? LMAO!

I was blogging back and forth with a friend on MySpace and it got so interesting I wanted to see what others thought here on the Rain. With technology the way it is today, kids are growing up with it with the feeling that this is "the Norm" so-to-speak. What we consider to be spoiled, to them is just an everyday convenience!

My youngest son comes into my room to check the channel guide on my box because his poor color tv with cable doesn't have a box. He has nothing to watch on those 100 and some stations, why doesn't he have a digital box on his tv like I do?

And the poor little darling (he's 10 by the way) his own personal computer in the living room doesn't have a subscription to an online game service, just the internet using broadband wireless connection, that's all... no game server to go log in to, what's this world coming too?

And you know he shares his room with his brother, and why can't he have HIS TV louder than HIS BROTHERS TV in the same room together because they can't watch the same show and come to  an agreement.

We won't even mention his older brother complaining because he can't hear his ipod over his brothers tv because he doesn't have the sound encapsulating headphones any more, he only has just a normal cheap pair of headphones, the poor deprived child.

I had a black and white tv, not to mention a little transistor radio I carried everywhere with me and treasured the squeaky little thing! I also had a used Atari with the cartridges to play centipede with and thought I was spoiled!

When the internet did come along it was all text and you paid by the hour to enter the "WEB" via compuserve. After that we dealt with dial up for years longer than we should have on an antique hand me down computer.

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So what's next on the agenda? When our kids from this generation are grown and have kids of their own, what will their kids be used to having all the time? We already have cartoons on around the clock every day of the week on Cartoon network instead of having to wait excitedly for Saturday morning cartoons like we did.

My friend also brought up jiffy pop popcorn instead of the microwave kind, actually we had one special pot we used for only popping popcorn when I was growing up. When it was popping it clicked and clanked on the lid you had to hold over the top and hope you didn't put too many kernels in the pot or have it go over the edge while popping it! LOL...

What will the next generation of kids take for granted?

Sharon Leigh
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