Digital native meets digital immigrant

Carmen showed up today with her phone already out, declaring it was time I joined “the streaming revolution.” Apparently my collection of burned CDs and iTunes purchases makes me officially old.

Digital native meets digital immigrant

She spent twenty minutes walking me through Spotify like it was rocket science - how to make playlists, follow other people’s playlists, why the Discover Weekly thing is supposedly life-changing. I kept interrupting with questions about where my music actually lives if it’s not on my phone, which made her laugh until she snorted.

Actually paying attention now that she showed me the workout playlists section

The breakthrough moment came when she showed me the Ready to Run playlist someone made. Okay fine, having thousands of workout songs at my fingertips without buying each one individually is pretty appealing. Jake’s going to be so confused when he comes home to find me streaming music instead of shuffling through my same fifteen running songs.

Still keeping my CD collection though. Some things are sacred.