The blind nature of the Web is amazing. Am I a grey-haired old African-American woman? A buffed-up surfer dude with a deep tan? Patrick Stewart? You don’t know, do you?<\/p>\n
Well, yeah, I have all those pictures at the top of the page. But those could be anybody’s <\/i>pictures.<\/p>\n
And, yeah, well, some of you know me. But maybe I’m pretending to be the guy who’s typing this blog — I mean, maybe the guy who’s typing this blog isn’t really me. I mean …<\/p>\n
Well, you get the point. When you get a comment, or an e-mail, you have no idea who that person is. You see a name, perhaps glean a gender, but that’s it.<\/p>\n
And when someone writes to you say, “Hey, wicked site!” your natural reaction is to blush, accept the kudos from your peers, and return the favor by going to see their web site (conveniently included in their e-mail).<\/p>\n
And read there a note in a post there that “I’m almost 19.”<\/p>\n
Okay, now I’m officially Old.<\/p>\n
When I was 19, I had no idea of doing something as a peer of a 40-something person. Such a person was an elder, a person who had vast experience with life, a person who was wise, accomplished, worthy of respect and being called “Mr.” or “Ms.”<\/p>\n
Sort of like my folks.<\/p>\n
Someone twice my age. It would have been unthinakable.<\/p>\n
Yet here we are on the Web. And it is, in fact, the great equalizer, at least in terms of opportunity. I can be a young whippersnapper and still throw up content and format that demands (and receives) respect, even from Much Older People. I can send folks an e-mail and not be automatically dismissed as a teenager. (Or, conversely, as an Old Man.)<\/p>\n
The peer pool widens quite a bit.<\/p>\n
Okay, that’s probably enough aging angst for a moment, and that’s not what this post was intended to be (nor was it meant to be a screed to insist that Young People Today Have No Respect For Their Elders). <\/p>\n
I just thought the expectations I <\/i>was carrying around were interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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