Those older than us grew up pre-dot-com boom. They still meet up at bars and ice skating rinks. They don't use IM that much, but they e-mail at work because that's what their job demands.
Then those younger than us grew up post-dot-com boom. They chit-chat exclusively on AIM and have LiveJournal sex. They are the most comfortable in the virtual.
My generation, on the other hand, lived a primitive, 80s-like existence where finding restaurants required flipping thru a big yellow book and music CDs still had to be purchased. Then the dot-com revolution hit, and some of us are in the net (like myself), while others are stranded between having a cool hatred of technology like the elders and embrasing the new like the youth does.
but I'm not totally net transformed. I still don't use my blog as my primary vehicle for communication. I may use AIM rigorously, but my offline life is distinct from my online one.
this is a gross over-exaggeration
though.
there is plenty of variation. Some of the coolest bloggers are elders who were once writers and are now doin' it on the net.
but I think you become imprinted culturally with what you were into in High School and College. Once you are past that age, you are likely (75% probability) to try new things with acquiesce
