Youtube generation
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- Jaline
So, people are citing this as the Youtube generation because of how kids don't seem to know what's real and what's not, due in part to things like Youtube where reality is merged with fiction (of course, this isn't new, but new technologies allow it to occur more often or at least on a larger scale).
Example:
http://www.citynews.ca/news/news…A girl was drugged and possibly raped in Toronto, and the guys who did it taped / took pictures of the entire thing and circulated it around the school. Not one student complained or called the cops, and many claim that they believed the photos to be fake.
It's all over the media now, and parents are ashamed of their children for seeing the pictures at school and not saying anything or attempt to help the girl.
Another school has banned cellphones because a student taped a teacher and some students in the hallway, and put the video on Youtube without asking.
http://580cfra.com/headlines/ind…Discuss.
- Jaline0
How would you react as a parent if your kids saw that camera video / pictures and didn't mention anything to anyone?
- ender790
that's unbelievably sick and twisted.
i'd be ashamed if i were a parent that not one child had the sense, compassion, or decency to say something.
- komkrktprod0
first of all, some people would see this happening in front of them or hear it thru a wall and not get involved.
I think we can hardly blame kids for being irresponsible. Its what they do.
- Jaline0
16 years old isn't that young...
- harlequino0
The "YouTube Generation" is this generation's excuse for bad behavior, just like metal records, rap, video games, godlessness, fast cars, and faster women are all the excuses of yesteryear.
Kids who have been taught right from wrong, have had boundaries set for them by responsible parents, and who have had consequences put to them for bad choices generally don't behave like this (Yes, I know there are execptions. I am generalizing).
Granted, it would help to more details about the case, and know mroe about their lives, but blaming technology and information is yet another excuse. It's the quick way out to resolution.
- k0na_an0k0
This is why parents need to beat their kids
- ender790
"first of all, some people would see this happening in front of them or hear it thru a wall and not get involved."
that's a good point. but that doesn't justify inaction.
"I think we can hardly blame kids for being irresponsible. Its what they do."
i think that's kind of the attitude that results in incidents like this. yes, kids are irresponsible. but the point is to get them to mature into responsible adults.
like harlequino said, blaming technology is an excuse. in my opinion, parents and teachers (to a lesser extent) are responsible.
- Jaline0
you can't blame just one thing. I agree with harlequino.
- komkrktprod0
yea blaming technology is an excuse.
i blame apathy. from what I know thats just handed down from gen to gen.
- jevad0
I blame the parents.
If those kids couldn't see right from wrong when they were doing that then they have been brought up badly and their parents need to be beaten too.
- Concrete0
What happened to the test tube generation?
- harlequino0
What happened to the test tube generation?
Concrete
(Mar 8 07, 08:49)We wised up. Crawled back into our tubes.
I am in a tube now. "Blub blub.."
- ender790
does it seem there are a lot of generations recently? how long does a generation last? why do they all need labels?
- harlequino0
I think generations are loosely grouped into 5-10 year blocks.
I admit, I do see the differences. I still (sort of) identify myself with Gen X. But on the back cusp of it. The people who were a couple years younger than me in HS were really so very different. Such different interests and attitudes.
- Jaline0
I have no idea what generation I'm in. I'm with those kids whose parents are baby boomers...
Haha, harlequino, I can picture you floating around...
- komkrktprod0
I thought it was 20-25 years...like boomers, hippies, gen x, y, etc...
but now i think it accelerates as per marketing hype to segment and classify folks.
i didn't know youtube had a generation. Maybe that just encompasses all the people who don't watch TV anymore cuz they are posting/watching vidz.
- Jaline0
they still watch lots of tv, it's just that they watch it online or on Youtube more than on an actual television set.
- acescence0
i read something about some interesting human behavior studies somewhere, wish i could remember where. basically, the results were that if someone were put in a situation where another was in distress, the likeliness of them responding was inversely proportional to the number of others they thought were also witness. meaning, the more people they thought were also party to the information, the more they assumed someone else would help.
- exador10
hey folks.
the school jaline mentioned was Cawthra park...my co-workers kid goes there...it's not far from where i work...
word is that the boys in question are from the highschool hockey team.now..far be it from me to generalize here..but man....i remember what the jocks were like in MY school as a teenager..
there aint a chance in hell i'd let my daughter go to a jock party..not a chance..
i was more in the artsy crowd (as i imagine most of you were) and although we smoked our share of weed etc, the crowd i ran with would never have been involved in something like this...not sure why, but it seems as though it's always a certain sportsy crowd of guys that do shit like that...
not to generalize or anything..ex