Monday, May 7, 2007

teenagers today

i have read on the article titled, " Armed, online and dangerous" in Sunday Times dated on the 6 May 2007. After reading the article, i have agreed with the journalist on her impression of teenagers today. She is rioght that nowadays teenagers are very attention seeking and want to be popular among their peers. In order to be that 'popular', many teenagers today has turn to media and mass communication for help. They shoot disturbing videos and publish them in websites like YouTube, blog about their hatred for a particular person and even turn to publish their own personal photos of their body to the public. For these that they have done, some even allow people to have their entries vote on. Not surprisingly, the viewers are mostly teenagers and their response to these entries are normally popular. In result to that, these teenagers that posted these disturbing entries get the 'fame' that they want. Eventually, many of them become more and more addictive to what they do and they posted more to sustain their so-called 'fame'.

What is becoming of their teenagers today? Are teenagers today more and more brutal and attention seeking than ever? To my opinion, the answer is yes. this are due to several factors, like lack of care and concern of parents for their own children and technological advancement in media
.Parents are considered a great importance to shape the character and personality of chilren. Nowadays, with female having higher education compared to the past, when mothers just have to stay at to tend to all the housework, both parents are working while letting their children to be either under the care of maids or grandparents or allow them to be independent at home. As a result, feeling lonely and inablity to express their feelings and thoughts to people, they will tend to search for alternatives for their expression. As many blog and import videos and pictures into the net and even in handphones to gain acknowledgement and recognition to their existence.

Technological advancements also play a part in shaping teenagers' characters. With the advancement of internet and mass communication, many people can now interchange their information easier. Thus, this attributes to a perfect ground for teenagers to gain knowledge from. Many a times, brutality and violence videos and pictures are available in internet due advancement. Thus, when teenagers are surfing the net, they may just come across them which may in turn cause them to have developed interest in them.

4 comments:

Melboy said...

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*~VpOtAtocHiP~* said...

Some sentences could be shortened to make the whole paragraph flow more smoothly. Some ideas conveyed. Good organization.Should put in more opinions.

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Hwee Lin
06/07

FLO said...

Detailed personal opinions. Overall quite well-written.