You are a digital ‘Mufuruki’ if...
Sep 24, 2009
IF you find the following ‘accent’ familiar, you are probably a digital mufuruki: <br>l Your secretary, son, daughter, grandchild or younger colleague at work created for you your first e-mail address and probably helps you check your email
IF you find the following ‘accent’ familiar, you are probably a digital mufuruki:
l Your secretary, son, daughter, grandchild or younger colleague at work created for you your first e-mail address and probably helps you check your email
You request for your e-mails to be printed and scribble your reply on paper for somebody to type
You are a university teacher and you insist on assignments, however small, submitted in hard copy rather than soft copy
You send an e-mail and follow it up with a phone call to confirm that it arrived, or you call to tell somebody you have received their e-mail and then go ahead to reply
You get irritated by the amount of time your children ‘waste’ chatting on their phones. You cannot even pronounce “iPodâ€. “What is this craze about phones and Facebook?†you wonder, forgetting that these children have never known the alternative — your country of origin.
You are an immigrant to their digital world, so adapt and live there. Sorry, you cannot go back to ‘your country’, it does not exist anymore
You have never pressed Ctrl+X, on your keyboard. What does this mean? Never mind if you cannot see a button on your keyboard labelled ‘Ctrl+V’.
You and your neighbour wondered why your 21-year-old son in second year at university wants Sh75,000 to buy a ‘stick’! Moreover he is not disabled and you do not expect a university student to be reduced to a herdsman.
You wonder: “In my primary school days, teachers asked us to take brooms to school. But these days, students take sticks! Things have really changedâ€. Probably not. You have migrated to a different world.
When young people talk about Second Life, you think they meant to talk about the TV soap, Second Chance, or they visited church and are talking about life after death.
l Your secretary, son, daughter, grandchild or younger colleague at work created for you your first e-mail address and probably helps you check your email
You request for your e-mails to be printed and scribble your reply on paper for somebody to type
You are a university teacher and you insist on assignments, however small, submitted in hard copy rather than soft copy
You send an e-mail and follow it up with a phone call to confirm that it arrived, or you call to tell somebody you have received their e-mail and then go ahead to reply
You get irritated by the amount of time your children ‘waste’ chatting on their phones. You cannot even pronounce “iPodâ€. “What is this craze about phones and Facebook?†you wonder, forgetting that these children have never known the alternative — your country of origin.
You are an immigrant to their digital world, so adapt and live there. Sorry, you cannot go back to ‘your country’, it does not exist anymore
You have never pressed Ctrl+X, on your keyboard. What does this mean? Never mind if you cannot see a button on your keyboard labelled ‘Ctrl+V’.
You and your neighbour wondered why your 21-year-old son in second year at university wants Sh75,000 to buy a ‘stick’! Moreover he is not disabled and you do not expect a university student to be reduced to a herdsman.
You wonder: “In my primary school days, teachers asked us to take brooms to school. But these days, students take sticks! Things have really changedâ€. Probably not. You have migrated to a different world.
When young people talk about Second Life, you think they meant to talk about the TV soap, Second Chance, or they visited church and are talking about life after death.