drive-by post
Apr. 8th, 2006 09:14 am
The Kansas City airport is EVIL. More later, we're going house-hunting, sort of - more like recon, the houses we're looking at now aren't likely to still be available when we want to move. California is weird.
This just in: Kids like to cuss online. One wonders if the writer ever bothered to ask her daughter what the kids these days mean with their wacky modern prostitution metaphors. I mean, I think MySpace is probably my own personal hell (your site plays music? Lots of borderline-illiterate kids posting pictures?), but doing stuff that you'll writhe over later and that your parents don't get is the whole point of adolescence, right?
I never know what to think about these "OMG the latest teen fad is going to get them all KILLED!" articles. My reflex is to feel the concerned adults are getting it all wrong. I do find it kind of weird the way a lot of younger people don't think twice about posting real names, real-life details more specific than state, gender and age, and for that matter, I still haven't fully adapted to people I've met IRL reading my LJ. I think of the intarweb as a pleasantly anonymous place where I can talk about stuff that would make my coworkers look at me funny. If it were my kid I'd probably be even more unsettled, but I think that's just part of letting your child reach the age of twelve or so. I'd rather have a kid up in her room typing messages I'd consider "coarse" (I assume at some point I'll start finding things coarse, maybe) than actually misbehaving in real life.
If the writer's daughter actually talks the way she's quoted as talking in the article, though, I don't know what to think. Maybe they're both androids.
This just in: Kids like to cuss online. One wonders if the writer ever bothered to ask her daughter what the kids these days mean with their wacky modern prostitution metaphors. I mean, I think MySpace is probably my own personal hell (your site plays music? Lots of borderline-illiterate kids posting pictures?), but doing stuff that you'll writhe over later and that your parents don't get is the whole point of adolescence, right?
I never know what to think about these "OMG the latest teen fad is going to get them all KILLED!" articles. My reflex is to feel the concerned adults are getting it all wrong. I do find it kind of weird the way a lot of younger people don't think twice about posting real names, real-life details more specific than state, gender and age, and for that matter, I still haven't fully adapted to people I've met IRL reading my LJ. I think of the intarweb as a pleasantly anonymous place where I can talk about stuff that would make my coworkers look at me funny. If it were my kid I'd probably be even more unsettled, but I think that's just part of letting your child reach the age of twelve or so. I'd rather have a kid up in her room typing messages I'd consider "coarse" (I assume at some point I'll start finding things coarse, maybe) than actually misbehaving in real life.
If the writer's daughter actually talks the way she's quoted as talking in the article, though, I don't know what to think. Maybe they're both androids.