Friday, September 7, 2012
Dumbest Generation Blog Post
It amazes me how all this technology is dwindling down onto the younger children. I didn't get a cell phone until I was 13 and wasn't allowed to make a Myspace account until I was about 13 also. I've seen kids as young as six years old have facebook accounts and cell phones. I saw a little girl that goes to my church was texting someone as she was walking out of church and I was thinking Who could she possibly be texting? But I guess now a days everyone that age has it. It took me until I was 18 years old to get an Iphone and it bothers me a lot when I see 4th graders with them. Like really? They're ten years old and being spoiled like this. How are they going to be when they're my age? I'm sure there will be a new type of technology that the kids will want by then. It's sad that the learning process is being interrupted by all the technology there is and it's just going to get worse. A quotes that really stood out to me was, "...they are able to juggle a conversation on Instant Messenger, a Web-surfing session, and an iTunes playlist while reading Twelfth Night for homework.". The amount that they are actually comprehending from that book is probably slim to none with all the other media things distracting them. I'm scared for the current generations and the generations to come. We need to stop reading the Facebook newsfeed and read a book!
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I agree. My youngest sister is 7 years younger than me and she has an ipod touch, cellphone, and her own computer. The fact that kids are getting these things at such a young age is making them grow up too fast.
ReplyDeleteI think it's funny that you are commenting on these "young kids" as if you were categorically different from them (and I don't mean that as a critique). I find it interesting that you see yourself as more different than similar to these young kids with iPhones at 7yo. To give you a contrast--I didn't have a computer in college. The INTERNET didn't really exist until 1996--after I graduated from college. I didn't have a cell phone until I was 20. I wasn't allowed on Facebook until about 2006/7. If we want to talk about different . . .
ReplyDeleteI think about this all of the time! If the age of getting any sort of electronic device has changed this much in the past, say, 10 years, what is it going to be in 10 more years? I'm hoping that some good comes out of all of this technology, not just Facebook and Pinterest.
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