Blog #3: Reflective Searching...

For me, searching the web for information is not a hard task. As adults, we should be able to use effective search strategies and not fall behind the generations of youth that are either right behind us or well past our usage of searching the web. Young people today are the Google generation, but are finding the Internet a place to explore and learn more technology. It is bad enough that youth of today have what I call, "million dollar phones", where they can email, text and talk all at the same time. Libraries are not being used by this generation of youth, as it was when I was younger, rather the youth of today are using search engines to do the librarians' job. What I have in common with teens in terms of searching the web, is that I also chunk information that is relevant to what I'm searching for. I also use some of the squirming behavior, not too much, and the horizontal information seeking behaviors. Today, I see that the adults are heading in the direction of being called the Google generation of 2013-2014, as things are just easier through a trusted search engine.