I see your point, but I'm wondering how much of that difference really is generational and how much is simply personal preference.
I can't speak for anybody else, but I have certainly been adopting new information technology. I had never viewed a website before the year 2000, regularly used e-mail before then. Now, I spend several hours a day reading and answering e-mails, and I surf and blog regularly.
Personally, I have very little patience with sorting through recommendations from acquaintances that "you really have to look at this website!" because I perceive reading through enough of the site to figure out whether there's anything there I care about as drudgery. It's not that I *can't* do it, or even that I can't do it fast enough, but doing it isn't effortless or fun; it's work. This is also my problem with IMing; it's work fiddling with typing messages into a Blackberry or phone, but much less work to speak the message into a phone or touch-type it into an e-mail or blog.
Re: Out there in the social web...
I can't speak for anybody else, but I have certainly been adopting new information technology. I had never viewed a website before the year 2000, regularly used e-mail before then. Now, I spend several hours a day reading and answering e-mails, and I surf and blog regularly.
Personally, I have very little patience with sorting through recommendations from acquaintances that "you really have to look at this website!" because I perceive reading through enough of the site to figure out whether there's anything there I care about as drudgery. It's not that I *can't* do it, or even that I can't do it fast enough, but doing it isn't effortless or fun; it's work. This is also my problem with IMing; it's work fiddling with typing messages into a Blackberry or phone, but much less work to speak the message into a phone or touch-type it into an e-mail or blog.