Are young people stupid?
August 10th 2007 03:58
Look. Let's give them some credit.
Web 2.0 has changed the world forever and those most impacted by this are the youth. Those squillons signing up for youtube, myspace and facebook.
Those who see something remarkable and say 'OH MY GOD I HAVE TO BLOG ABOUT THIS WHEN I GET ACCESS TO A COMPUTER!'
or instead of 'wow that photo will look nice in a frame!' they say 'that is like sooo going on myspace'
but does it make them stupid?
John Howard stooped to an even lower level when he gave youtube a try (youNoob) and everyone just laughed at him.
Then Kevin Rudd tried a new interactive website with links to the aforementioned sites in a hope to bolster his street cred amongst the hip and happening crowd of the younger generation.
Everyone is trying to do something significant by the young people but at the end of the day they don't really take us seriously. How can they, if they figure the way to our hearts is through technology that even we're still getting the hang of?
There are other ways to reach out to young people. The first step would be to not stereotype them as falling under the one umbrella of young, booze drinking delinquants who cannot think for themselves (take note current affairs program)
Give us an innovative leader. A visionary. Give us someone who doesn't need to resort to trivial tactics to communicate with us and speak to us on our level. Someone who doesn't try and use the GAP year as a method of army recruitment. Someone who doesn't propose censorship on the internet (yes there's irony here).
Give us Julia Gillard or some other female who won't stand for the crap that we've endured since John Howard's inception into Australian politics.
Fantastic Amazing Prime Minister : Where the bloody hell are you?
Web 2.0 has changed the world forever and those most impacted by this are the youth. Those squillons signing up for youtube, myspace and facebook.
Those who see something remarkable and say 'OH MY GOD I HAVE TO BLOG ABOUT THIS WHEN I GET ACCESS TO A COMPUTER!'
or instead of 'wow that photo will look nice in a frame!' they say 'that is like sooo going on myspace'
but does it make them stupid?
John Howard stooped to an even lower level when he gave youtube a try (youNoob) and everyone just laughed at him.
Then Kevin Rudd tried a new interactive website with links to the aforementioned sites in a hope to bolster his street cred amongst the hip and happening crowd of the younger generation.
Everyone is trying to do something significant by the young people but at the end of the day they don't really take us seriously. How can they, if they figure the way to our hearts is through technology that even we're still getting the hang of?
There are other ways to reach out to young people. The first step would be to not stereotype them as falling under the one umbrella of young, booze drinking delinquants who cannot think for themselves (take note current affairs program)
Give us an innovative leader. A visionary. Give us someone who doesn't need to resort to trivial tactics to communicate with us and speak to us on our level. Someone who doesn't try and use the GAP year as a method of army recruitment. Someone who doesn't propose censorship on the internet (yes there's irony here).
Give us Julia Gillard or some other female who won't stand for the crap that we've endured since John Howard's inception into Australian politics.
Fantastic Amazing Prime Minister : Where the bloody hell are you?
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