Digital Native Gifts

"He looks so natural."

Evolution of Man

'Weird... look Dad! Someone printed out a bunch of tweets, and then they added exrta characters to all the words...' 'Or as I call it, a book!'

Santa accepts cookies on a website.

Technology continues to improve communication.

"I didn't get much sleep-I was up late playing with the settings on my sleep app."

'Does your bird talk?'

"Don't you have newspapers to deliver this morning?"

"Just so you know, I only tolerate your generation because you can troubleshoot my technology issues."

'Do something offline for a change? OK...let me see what suggestions I can find online.'

' . . . We're releasing you into the wild so that you fly free, my young eaglet. Don't forget to tweet.'

"A bunch of friends are coming over to stare at their phones."

This is a 'text book' it's a bit like a website but printed on paper.

"Anyone following me on Twitter already knows what I did this past summer."

'Hold on a minute. I'm downloading an app to monitor my app downloading.'

'Why aren't I in school? I have an app that does that for me.'

#Whyneighborsdon'tknowtheirneighbors

Indian checks email and sees that he has received Smokesignals.

'Mary had a little smartphone. It's case was white as snow. Everywhere that Mary went, her phone was sure to go.'

'Can't we handle this through more impersonal channels like text messaging?'

"It's great the way that computer algorithms allow the internet to feed me with opinions that reinforce the ones I've already got - all on my phone!"

"And to my nephew, Todd, I leave my 27 Twitter followers."

'I won't be writing this year, you can find my list on my blog.'

"What's the matter, sweetie? You haven't touched your food or your phone."

'Hey, I clicked the 'Remember Me' box...and you don't?'

'I didn't do my homework because I forgot my user name and password.'

"I don't know cursive and you don't know emoji. I'd say that makes us even."

'Why don't you put all that stuff away, and go watch some good old-fashioned TV?'

'Seriously! My parents say they remember when all you could do with a cell phone was make calls.'

"Why do I have to go to school? Why can't I just log onto their website when I get up?"

'It's a gadget for buying gadgets over the net.'

'No matter how carefully I surf the Internet, I always get too much information.'

"If the average attention span is 8 seconds, why are most commercials 30 seconds?"

The Paleo-Information Age/The Information Age/The "Whoa, Too Much Information!" Age.

"How long do you think it'll take before he realizes I took his phone away?"