This Generation
I am puzzeled with youth today. I struggle to understand them and to relate to them and to help them. This generation seems to be a interverted generation. They have more technology today than they can handle. It is amazing how fast the world is changing. My world is changing which is North America. We seem to lead the rest of the world in home elect
ronics. But looking just at my small world here in Victoria, I struggle to watch these young people spend so much time on computers and computer games. To me they are accomplishing nothing but interverted nerds. The problem is they live in a false or make belief world when on the net in some chat room or IMing someone. There is no real connection with individuals anymore. When I see young people away from their computers, cellphones, ipods and psp's they don't know how to interact with each other. They stand around like a bunch of dead zombies wondering how long before they can go back to their security blankets. So what do we do? How do I embrace it or help change it? I would IM more but then they don't know my emotions my silly joking around because they just get some weird spelling of a word and text back something even stranger. I try to spend time with young people away from their gadgets but our conversation seems so dry. I need a fresh idea that would attract the young people to want to be a part of it.
ronics. But looking just at my small world here in Victoria, I struggle to watch these young people spend so much time on computers and computer games. To me they are accomplishing nothing but interverted nerds. The problem is they live in a false or make belief world when on the net in some chat room or IMing someone. There is no real connection with individuals anymore. When I see young people away from their computers, cellphones, ipods and psp's they don't know how to interact with each other. They stand around like a bunch of dead zombies wondering how long before they can go back to their security blankets. So what do we do? How do I embrace it or help change it? I would IM more but then they don't know my emotions my silly joking around because they just get some weird spelling of a word and text back something even stranger. I try to spend time with young people away from their gadgets but our conversation seems so dry. I need a fresh idea that would attract the young people to want to be a part of it.
2 Comments:
Hey Colin - I agree - I've had similar things happen when I've had a lively email discussion with someone (under 25) who then is incapable of actually continuing the conversation in person. It's like they're two entirely different people. VERY WEIRD and hard to connect...
Bev
I was actually talking about this very subject to someone the other day. The whole idea that teenagers and even YA are so consumed with using technology for communication that they don't even know how to carry on a decent conversation in person.
This is the way it's done now with this generation; instead of using their cell phones to talk, teens are using them to text eachother. They don't even have to talk to a REAL person anymore if they don't want to.
I don't pretend to understand it but I am aware that young people are loosing valuable life and communication skills because of our techology.
It's tough, I agree.
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