Our generation has everything we need to be successful. We can learn anything and everything from the comfort of our own homes. We can even learn things while half asleep, in bed.
We never go anywhere without our phones. We use our laptop, tablet or Smartphone every minute we’re awake. It’s like it’s glued to our hand. We get mini heart attacks if we don’t feel our phone in our pocket and we will jump up from the couch if we can’t find it within a few seconds. We know our way around the internet and we have the time of our lives watching fights and other stupidity on Worldstar. We use Google and YouTube, but for all the wrong reasons. When is the last time you looked up something that made you smarter? A vine is only 6 seconds, but how many do we watch? I know I like to look at compilations and those take up to 8-24 minutes. In 8 minutes I have watched 80 vines. In 24 minutes I have watched 240 vines. That means I have wasted 480-1440 seconds. I might have laughed 10 times but that’s all it did for me. You can type in anything you want on Google or YouTube and have the answers within 2 seconds (If you have good Wi-Fi). I learned how to knit and crochet on YouTube. I made a couple of scarves and I’m working on a second blanket. I didn’t have to read the books my mom gave me. I just typed a word and got all the videos explaining and showing me how to do it, step by step. YouTube also taught me how to properly decorate a cake. Things I didn’t have to take a class for. All for free. But instead of feeling the need to learn new things, when I open YouTube I want to see interviews from the breakfast club and I watch vlogs that don’t do anything for me, except wasting 10 minutes of my day. We want to see what other people do in their lives. We want to know their business. What we should be doing, is making sure we have our business in control. Most of us don’t. I am one of them. We follow hundreds of people on Instagram, Twitter, facebook, Soundcloud … what else? We are more focused on the likes we get on Facebook and Instagram, the retweets on Twitter and the followers we have. When I found out my mom had twitter and she had more followers than me I felt a certain kind of way. Why? I have no idea. (Note: My mom is a business woman with a lot of contact. Yes, this is me defending the fact that my mom (!) has more followers than me) We are so focused on things that don’t matter. What happens if internet stops working for 24 hours? We’d be lost! We wouldn’t know what to do with ourselves. My 7 year old niece came over last week. She grabbed her tablet and asked for the Wi-Fi password. What?! When I was 7, I played with Barbie’s. She doesn’t even like dolls anymore. She’s ‘too old’ for that. Ok, fair enough, when I was 7 internet wasn’t what it is right now. But she has her own Google+ account and she plays games online and she needs WI-FI!!! She didn’t use the internet to Google something interesting. No, she showed me a video of someone doing crazy dances on YouTube. She introduced me to ‘Dance Moms’ and she even clicked on a video from IceJJFish. I think my generation and the generation after mine are the first to start living online. But I fear for the generation of my daughter. I think they will only live online. Am I paranoid? Please let me know what you think about this.
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AuthorMy passion is writing. I started writing stories when I was only 6 years old and I still do it today. Blogging is something I've been wanting to do for a long time, so here we are. Archives
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