C is six years older than me and in his early 30′s.  He remembers never having a computer (he never “had” one until we moved in together 5 years ago).  I barely remember not being able to chat online using AOL.  Granted, I was 14 when AOL became very popular, but that’s about the time you really start communicating by yourself with others in your school without having mom or dad give you the phone number.

Don’t get me wrong, I know many in their 30′s and up are very computer savvy, and I don’t know if there is a solid line where the technology gap exists, but there is a gap.  My friends, both my age, are dating or married to a man 20+ years their senior.  Their significant others don’t understand myspace, facebook and blogging.  C doesn’t understand the popularity of it either.  He also thinks that my webcam is for making web porn still, you know what people thought those were for back in the 90′s.  (He may or may not have been kidding, I’m still not sure)  He is also paranoid about my picture being on the vast Internet.  If he only really understood that making profiles, including pictures and biography are the way this generation and those after us, network. 

So instead of fighting over something he doesn’t understand or maybe just taking the easy way out, I just don’t tell him the extent of presence online (my friends also skirt the issue of what they put online with their significant others).  I know that if he got online regularly or even checked him email regularly I would help him get himself out on the Internet, but until that time comes I think I’ll just keep it underwraps.