<p>I am 15 years old and now, I feel old.</p>
<p>I use email. I don’t even have a smart phone. I love cursive. I don’t even know how to text.</p>
<p>But no, I don’t wear a wristwatch.</p>
<p>That is one of the craziest articles I have ever read. I’m c/o '14 and I still have a corded phone on my desk, I write my Grandma letters, and I never go to school without a watch b/c some of my teachers don’t have clocks in their rooms (how else will I know how much longer I have to suffer through the class??).</p>
<p>I do have an iPhone though…and I’m not ashamed to admit that I love it. =)</p>
<p>If any incoming freshmen think email is too slow, they’re gonna get over it pretty quick… an active college student can get dozens of emails a day from the school administration, professors, different extracurricular organizations, listservs, etc. It’s one of the main methods of communication at college (much more so than in high school, I’d say).</p>
<p>I didn’t realize people thought email was too slow.</p>
<p>It is interesting to watch movies from the 80s & early 90s and note that there are NO cell phones! People have to find pay phones, and if they get stuck somewhere, there are no cell phones to bail them out. And airports–you used to be able to just hop on a plane without massive ID. And smoke in airports. Believe it or not. :D</p>
<p>Ah, those were the days. No long lines and hassles to get on a flight. Even better was airplane flight in like the 50s when it was so comfortable and awesome that people dressed up for it! Nowadays you dress in your ultra-casual wear because wearing a suit would be just uncomfortable.</p>
<p>You can still smoke in airports btw, if they have a special smoking section. They’re usually these small, I’d say 8ft x 10ft boxes that don’t let the smoke out cos they have a ventilation system like what’d you see at a good gun range.</p>
<p>With a husband who collects Panerai watches and vintage Rolex watches, my son definitely respects a great wristwatch. Anyone who thinks watches are going “out of style” doesn’t know that great timepieces have experienced a huge resurgence in popularity…even the fashion watches by manufacturers like Michael Kors, Burberry, Michelle, Fossil, etc. The author lives in a cave.</p>
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<p>You serious? A huge resurgence in popularity among who? Upper-middle class professionals or average college kids? Come on now. </p>
<p>The average person doesn’t exactly have the kind of money to splurge on Panerai watches and vintage watches. Most kids would never have the exposure your son has had.</p>
<p>Soon we’ll be riding around in cars that hover in the air (and subsequently, toss our money-grubbing spouses out of said hover cars). Then our magical cars will fold up into teeny little briefcases.*</p>
<p>We’ll own robots as pets and we won’t be required to walk anymore because all walkways will poof into conveyor belts.*</p>
<p>The best change of our futuristic generation, will be when our height-challenged manager screams our last name–and only our last names–when we screw up (which will be often).*</p>
<p>Every now and then, a mystical recording of people laughing will erupt in our ears.*</p>
<p>But we will pay them no mind because it is normal to have laughing voices in your head while living in our generation.</p>
<p>Oh dear, there they go again. *</p>
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<p>And that’s when I stopped reading this article. I don’t wear wristwatch’s though. Anything on my wrists will annoy the crap out of me</p>
<p>I don’t think I’ve ever worn a watch before, come to think of it. I mean, my parents wanted to make me wear one to the SAT’s and I was like “lol what?” And the cursive thing, I totally agree with that too as there are only a few people who can really write cursive at my school. Some people’s handwriting is so bad that they type their notes.</p>
<p>Unlike the majority of posters in this thread, it seems like, I can barely write in cursive and I don’t wear a wristwatch. That must qualify me as young. (The statement that you must write in cursive at the end of standardized tests painful and is on par with a 2nd grader’s handwriting.)</p>
<p>I wear a watch daily (just started to recently, though) and now feel naked without it. I remember dial-up, so there’s no way e-mail could ever be “too slow” for me. I sometimes use cursive, usually as emphasis for handwritten notes, where I would normally bold/italicize it on the computer, as opposed to my whole page. My family JUST got a cordless phone, and we upgraded to FiOS only about 3 years ago with cable before that.</p>
<p>Then again, maybe it’s because I’m a '13er 
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<p>Agreed. My family had dial-up until I was fourteen. Email arrives in my inbox one to two minutes, tops, after it’s sent. Considering I have vivid memories of it regularly taking that long to load a single webpage, it’s more than fast enough for me.</p>
<p>I suck at writing in cursive, but other than that I do use email pretty often and I sometimes wear a wristwatch.</p>
<p>Most people I know don’t write cursive (I’m a rising senior in HS), and I know tons of people struggled with that part on the SAT! Email for me is used only for filling out online stuff and sending files to people. Most communication is all through Facebook, Skype, texting. </p>
<p>Few people I know wear watches too. Basically I really fit into that profile.</p>
<p>Well lets see.</p>
<p>I wear a genuine 80s calculator watch, its awesome.
I stopped writing in cursive half way through 11th grade because teachers couldn’t read it. My print isn’t spectacular either.</p>
<p>I remember having a cordless phone when I was a kid, but I haven’t seen one in ages. I do remember learning cursive in the 3rd grade but after that I never used it again. Wristwatches are ewww but I do love e-mail.</p>
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<p>My family had dial up (2kbps) until two years ago. Now we have mobile broadband, and I usually get 20-40 kbps. I can deal.</p>
<p>LOL My son who works for Google will be able to tell his children/grandchildren, when he was a kid his family didn’t even have internet until he was 13! He had to bike to the library to sign on for 30 minute sessions. Poor kid. ;)</p>
<p>It will be like being born before the invention of electricity or something.</p>