What Say You?
Next weekend is Bar Camp San Diego. I’m going for the first time. Which also means I’m presenting. I’m excited! My presentation, tentatively titled: “Talking to Your Parents About Facebook”, will talk about ways to close the social media generation gap.
I’m putting together an informal questionnaire to get additional insights from those on the other side of said gap.
A kagillion minds are better than my single one, so sending anything out, I thought I’d open things up to some crowdsourcing and see what questions you would like to see included on the survey.
I’ll be posting the survey, its results, and my presentation here as I complete them, so consider this your opportunity to cross the generational divide as well.
What would you ask?
Please leave your suggestions as comment, so others may see them as well.
Thanks in advance for your ideas!
Faryl
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I’m not sure what to ask, but feel free to contact my mom (age 69) to ask her questions. Let me know privately if you want her email address, and I’ll send her a heads up.
Several years ago, I created a yahoogroups group and invited all my maternal side relatives and our life partners to join in. This has made it easy for us to share family news with a single email, set up parties, and share jokes and stories, discuss Christmas lists, etc.
None of my mom’s generation has their own web site, but one aunt has become hooked on this thing called MadeBig, where she plays for funny money she can cash in for real products. It’s very time consuming, so I never got hooked on it myself. But they say many of their contemporaries barely master e-mail, so they don’t really have anyone to social network with but their kids.
At 47, I find my contemporaries who did not choose IT careers are in the same boat as my parents, but we’re adding MySpace pages online to coordinate the 30th high school reunion that is coming up this spring. We also used a page created on MyEvent.com to coordinate the event, and our users are very successfully joining in and adding their own family pictures and connecting to one another online. We also have a high usership in classmates.com, but not many people actually use that to make contacts… they tend to come out to our MyEvent.com or Myspace.com page.
I have begun using facebook myself in the last year, and have not stepped into twitter because of my current information overload with over 300 regular emails a day. (I’m disenrolling from many newsletters I barely read, or that have swung to an angry/bitter conservative message style, and all other “Chicken Little” mind killers.)
So, questions might include: how do you stay in touch with friends? Would you like an easy way to get back in touch with folks that you haven’t seen/spoken to in a while? Can you type on the keyboard? Are you able to read web sites easily, or do you get eye strain? Do you get addicted to web sites on the Internet? Which ones? Why do you like those? Do your kids and grandkids know more about computers than you do? Does working on a computer make you feel smarter, or intimidated?
Stuff like that springs to mind.
@ AnneMac Helpful information, Anne, thanks!
I’m curious – what was it that made you decide to take the facebook plunge?