Teenagers and the Internet

[Serial_Apologist]

....you've both lost me....

You never give me that impression, 8th.

[eighthobstruction]

You never give me that impression, 8th.

....it's a bit of a balance on a very thin blunt rusty blade sometime S-A....(or is it ice I should be using as a metaphor),....

[Serial_Apologist]

....it's a bit of a balance on a very thin blunt rusty blade sometime S-A....(or is it ice I should be using as a metaphor),....

Like a good punchline the point (solution to the problem, or what-have-you) has to be seen instantaneously, otherwise the laughter (as metaphor for depth of understanding) is pretend, if you get me...

[eighthobstruction]

I don't....I don't....

[Serial_Apologist]

I don't....I don't....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3hVc2hWYxg

[eighthobstruction]

Got to go out....I'll reconsider my self in a hour or so....

[amateur51]

I meant Resurrection Man, didn't I?

I wouldn't dream of presuming ...

[eighthobstruction]

Oh I understand S-A....the very thought that one of my posts or yours might not be understood in entirity, is I know unlikely....kind of given up on Zen....opting for serendipity (and even in some [most] cases reverse serendipity)....anyway you're agin all that Zen stuff ain't ya....

Anyway back OT....kids don't you just love them....the way they purposely giggle as you pass....avoid your eyes ....and have no idea at all what you are talking about....and leave their Ribena and Lucozaid bottles about....

[amateur51]

But if parents took their responsibility seriously then the teenager would understand the boundaries perhaps or at least the broader implications.

An example of some parents taking their twelve-year olds' behaviour seriously ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-24056893

[zoomy]

I remember hearing similarly conservative arguments about television and its effect on children - it introduced them to violence, pernicious ideas, made conversation redundant in families, it was bad for children's eyes and it all lead to to more divorce, single parenting, dilinquency etc etc. And now we have it all again from the same conservative organisations - the church, education administrators, concerned parents, authoritarian film makers etc.

[Anastasius]

I remember hearing similarly conservative arguments about television and its effect on children - it introduced them to violence, pernicious ideas, made conversation redundant in families, it was bad for children's eyes and it all lead to to more divorce, single parenting, dilinquency etc etc. And now we have it all again from the same conservative organisations - the church, education administrators, concerned parents, authoritarian film makers etc.

But televisions are/were nothing like the pernicious, nasty mean-spirited social media sites that hang teenagers out to dry by their peers.

[Serial_Apologist]

But televisions are/were nothing like the pernicious, nasty mean-spirited social media sites that hang teenagers out to dry by their peers.

In these times poverty is back to do that particular job - just like when we woz young, no?

[MrGongGong]

But televisions are/were nothing like the pernicious, nasty mean-spirited social media sites that hang teenagers out to dry by their peers.

You been having tiffs on mumsnet again Ana ?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

But televisions are/were nothing like the pernicious, nasty mean-spirited social media sites that hang teenagers out to dry by their peers.

We attribute these vices to teenagers, yet older people are just as guilty of these things.

[MrGongGong]

We attribute these vices to teenagers, yet older people are just as guilty of these things.

OOOOOO no they aren't