I Only Use Email to Talk to Old People
Derek Keats,
keats.com,
Sept 24, 2008
"I have two teenage sons," writes Derek Keats. "They spend a lot of time in solitary social situations...i.e. they are physically alone, or in a room watching TV, listening to music or doing homework, but are socially connected to their friends via Mixit and Facebook on their cell phones. This is the reality, it is as senseless to decry it as it was to suggest that the invention of writing would destroy oral culture a long time ago." Well, maybe so, but at som point they will have to move to engage with existing culture. As some point, they need to communicate message that have more depth than "I hpe ths s prty clr to U. F tis nt thn phps we nd a crs abt yng ppl, jst 4 old ppl." It's easy to say young people communicate differently. That's cliche. What si hard is describing how the young people of today will communicate in twenty years, given this history. p.s. someone please tell Derek Keats about RSS autodiscovery.
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