Shrinking the Gap

In "Say Everything," the idea of the shrinking generation gap was discussed and I'm not sure if I completely agree. My mom now has a Facebook. She is head of part of a Special Education department in a school district and is "friends" with her real-life teacher friends from her schools. I lectured my mom ad nauseum about why someone in a high school setting shouldn't be an active Book user, but if they are, they should take some pretty serious privacy measures. She's fine on it, but one of her teacher friends added one of their special ed students. The student Facebook IM'ed the teacher and started talking about one of the other students. AWFUL! This is the kind of thing I warned my mom about! I'm sure I don't have to go into the issues that surround that type of activity..

So my point about the generation gap is that even though older people and younger people are now using the same mediums, the older people are so much farther behind on the ins and outs of what they're doing. The younger generations have made the mistakes -- they've insulted people, they've done inappropriate things, interacted with strangers, etc -- but now the older generation is breezing in as if the Book can do no harm. I don't know if the gap is narrowing, or if the roles are just reversing, where the younger people have the experience and have to pass it on to the older people.