These 'modern life is unhealthy' kinds of attitude bring out my stroppy inner-teenager!
But (rolling my eyes back down from the ceiling and uncrossing my arms) when we see a rash of newspaper articles discussing concern over any emerging technology, I see it as an indicator of that technology's maturation. It has moved on from the realm of geeks and early adopters and is now crossing the screen of the reluctant tech-user, even luddite types are having to read about it in their newspapers.
To me social networking sites are nearing a Beatles status. Let me explain what I mean: in the sixties people either liked or disliked the Beatles but they acknowledges their existence, if only to state their dislike of them or to express disinterest.
Having said all of that, I do think that the editor's chosen to take a stance which is typical of the "We're all going to hell in a handbasket." approach that we've come to expect from British newspapers over the past decade or so.
Well, that's all the attention I can handle on this topic, I was a Generation Xer who watched music videos in the 80s and who checks facebook several times a day. I'm surprised I managed to....oh look....a shiny pebble.
Did some people really NOT like the Beatles?
ReplyDelete:)
ReplyDelete