Sunday’s reserved for relaxation, home cooked food, and the occasional trip to grandma’s house.

Every time I visit, it seems as though my grandma has a slew of questions making a line out the door for me – of course, technology related. I know I am not alone in this, I am sure we can all relate to changing the ringtone on a flip phone or downloading Candy Crush on their newest iPhone – Lord Help. However, it seems that I might be alone in my ability to actually provide decent advice in regards to anything involving technology.

Turns out, technology has proven to be a wild beast I have yet to tame.

Isn’t this supposed to be easy? This is a vital skill that should’ve been conquered long ago. At least according to our generation stereotypes, it’s expected we have the skill level of a social media guru and a prodigy engineer at Intel. Not likely in my case. It isn’t necessarily adapting to new technology that is the issue, it is being able to remain aware of the most innovative changes and adjusting to the communication styles of social media.

Creating discouragement, there is frustration in one’s ability to adapt with changing times. Being a Communication major at a young age suggests the assumption one is a social media expert. Especially with today current careers, it is evident that social media has conquered the Communication realm and completely altered how people interact. Therefore, it would prove in my best interest to invest if there is a hope to reach success. Yet, I still struggle; a struggle with both knowledge of social media navigation but also preferred methods of communication.

I know I know, social media must be second nature. While I could easily research social media tactics in order to improve my efforts, there is still an issue of whether or not social media becomes a normalized form of communication. Looking through all of my awkwardness over the years, I was able to assess several reasons as to why social media isn’t my cup of tea.

Maybe I was born in the wrong generation, I constantly think back to Paul Blart Mall Cop when he claims, “I prefer hand written sentiments.” Yes Paul, you go Paul! Now, I am not riding horseback to hand delivery these handwritten novels, not by any means. However, I prefer face-to-face communication to both truly build a relationship with others but also for convenience. I would never call my friends, I would just walk down the street to their house. Rather exchange Facebook messages for 30 minutes trying to figure out our plans, I call them and a decision is made in minutes.

At a younger age, all of my friends had a Myspace and eventually a Facebook – from here social media erupted like a volcano.

Anyone who was someone had a social media account, except for me. As my parents proved to be extremely old-fashioned, I never caught onto the populism and this has seemed to continue to today. While I didn’t at the time, I truly appreciate my parents for forcing me to hold onto the classic “just go walk to their house” approach.

Again, social media has become instrumental in today’s world and it is essential to remain adaptive to the times. However, this doesn’t mean that a heart to heart over a cup of coffee wouldn’t be much preferred than a retweet on Twitter.