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Any time I've needed a childhood photo of myself, my mom has had to dig it out of one of dozens of photo albums, all of which she had to maintain by printing and arranging photos on a regular basis. It was an expensive, time-consuming process, and finding a certain photo has never been an easy task.

Today, when my family asks me for photos of my child or an account of something funny he did six months ago, I search for and upload the info to my computer and post it either on Flickr, Facebook, a blog post or e-mail. It's done and the grandparents and ooo-ing and ah-ing in a matter of minutes.

How will the technological ease of recording our lives affect the members of Gen Y and their children, the first few generations to grow up with personal computers and the Internet in their homes and schools, and their senses of themselves as individuals and as an age group? Is the communication technology that's available to us today is revolutionary, changing fundamentally how we'll ultimately live our lives, or do you think it all just amounts to newer, faster ways of doing things we were already doing before?

Join the conversation <a href="http://www.tulsakids.com/?q=confessions-work-home-mom-facebook-generation">on my blog at TulsaKids.com</a>.

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