Generation Gaps!

Ever have those moments where something that has never bothered you manages to one day make you furious? Well that happened for me today. I have always surrounded myself with older people as in 50+ in age people and I love it because I feel I can learn from there thing you can't in school. They have wisdom and they have lived ya know? However no matter how much they have lived back in the day the world changes everyday and usually you change with it or get left in the past. The conversation was about an highly used and popular site known as Rate My Professor. As a student myself, I know how useful this site can be, but I also know how hurtful and ridiculous it can be to the professors whom we are speaking about. Some students use the site as a venting method to get back at the horrid teacher that fail them because they put no effort in the class the whole semester, while others use it to praise the teacher who took a special interest in them and passed the student just because they liked them as a person. Then you have the few of us who happen to use the site for legit reasons, such as finding out what professor actually uses the book you spent 350 bucks on and what professor will show up to their office hours and give you the help they claim to provide. I was having this discussion with an English Professor and a person I consider a human book whose opinion I value beyond measure. This site I felt to the pair of them was absurd and a  particular word was used by one of them as a criticism of me was SHALLOW. I heart sank. I always hoped that no one would ever to use that word when describing me. In case you didn't know what that word meant, it means to lack depth in intellect, knowledge or emotion. I did in fact take it to the heart. I didn't understand why I was perceived that way because of what I am use to in my generation. It definitely made me consider a few things. 1). it is not a bad thing  that what was used in one generation is now improved for the next and that doesn't make it any less meaningful or useful. Books no longer have the value they use to, nowadays your phone is your memory bank not your brain, this is sad but so true. 2). Youth today are a lot more lazy learning wise than ever before. We choose the easiest and least challenging methods which most of the time take little to no effort. If most of us were ever in an emergency situation  with no cell phone, we wouldn't survive because we don't know anyone's phone number by heart. 3). Just as "Old Folks" don't get why we do the things we do, we don't get why they did the things they did. That's why we are all here. To teach, and learn and understand they ways of others. Always be open-minded! Strive to be more eager to learn and less quick to judge.