Nancy Gibbs Quotes

Our generation's grown up with the Internet, so it's an extension of our social lives; it's an extension of us. It makes perfect sense for me to use that medium.

Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.

I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social.

I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.

Millennials regularly draw ire for their cell phone usage. They're mobile natives, having come of age when landlines were well on their way out and payphones had gone the way of dinosaurs. Because of their native fluency, Millennials recognize mobile phones can do a whole lot more than make calls, enable texting between friends or tweeting.

My generation is so tied up in television, computers, and video games. When we were born, MTV was already there. It was normal.

I think there's sort of an extra oomph with the younger people coming up. They're writing. They're communicating. They're sharing, and they are very much technology-driven.

For being the largest generation in American history, the Millennial generation inspires a ridiculous degree of overgeneralization.

The millennial generation is very vocal.

These kids [of the current generation] have no fear of technology ... sort of like I have no fear of a refrigerator.

I think everyone should have social media - all young people, at least.

Kids still can be said to live in their own little world. Even if their parents are helicoptering around them, assigning play dates and so forth, I think they're still living in some sense of their own little perceptual worlds.

I think that new communications are wonderful and I am delighted to be a part of the Internet generation.

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.

I've never seen anything like the way some young people behave. They go out on a date, and they're sitting opposite each other at a table, and they're not looking at each other, and they text each other as though they're deaf-mutes. It's insane.

My two daughters live on Facebook, and social media is their mode of communication.

If you talk to most people under 30, they don't read a newspaper.

The young people today are the 21st century.

There is a widening gap between the middle-aged-to-older generation, who still read newspapers and watch CCTV news, and the Internet generation.

Kids today are technologically sophisticated. In many families, they are far ahead of their parents.

This wired generation is kind of cool.

The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities.

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication. And so many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old.