PBS Presentation discussed about how teens in US live their lives in Online
and how their parents, teachers or previous generation people feel differences and how they trying to understand and adapt to these Online world. These days, most of teens have their own computer in their room. Unlike with previous generation, computers become most important, useful, and common for teens. They are doing their homeworks and other interests from computer. Having E-mail, AOL, MSN, My Space, or Facebook is obvious thing between teens. They chatting through internet instead meet and eye contact. They share informations through online and it is really fast.
In this PBS program, we can see 5 teens-parents, Greg-his parents, Cam-his mother, Jessica-her parents and Sara-her parents who have conflicts each other and struggling to deal with their generation gap. and they talk about Ryan who took suicide due to cyberbullying. The similarities between those first 4 families are parents don't understand their son/daughter and teens don't understand their parents. So they become not having conversation and teens more and more trying to hiding things from parents. The reason why teens love online and addict to online is they can do whatever they want. They can express their feelings and personalities that they couldn't show or express. It creates another himself/herself that he or she wanted to be.(eg. Jessica Hunter) In other side, Parents fear about lot of bad stuff about online. There are many sexual predator things happen and students use same resources and words for their school works and most serious problem is many teens and even younger people attempt suicide or feel pain from cyberbullying.(eg. Ryan) These things made parents and previous generation people to worry.
I am also really love to use online and play with it. I can chatting with my friends even I can't see their faces and I can express more of myself that I can't do it in real world. My parents also don't like it when I seat in front of my laptop and doing long time things that not related to study or school. I know I shouldn't extremely immersed in online and I am also sometimes feel my generation become more selfish and self-centered. Online is not toally bad because computer and internet brought huge chages and advantages to the World. However we should be aware of control.
To watch the PBS program:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/#
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I can definately relate to what you are saying in your last paragraph. My parents also tend to give me guff over how long I spend on my laptop not doing non school related things. I think that people of our generation do tend to be a little too involved in the overly online community. I dont think its posing many problems though, other then a lack of attention span of the average person.
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