My mom hates my blog, there I said it. She hates this blog, and this blog, and this blog too. She hates that I tell her things she says are going on any kind of blog. She thinks blogging is for crazy people who just want other crazy people to call them up on the phone and say crazy things to them (actually, we just want crazy people to leave comments, because it makes us feel popular and important).
She also hates My Space and thinks it will just get you fired.
And now, here comes Newsweek with their story all about the "Me Generation" and how they go putting everything up on the internets and are unphased by their constant need to overshare.
Them kids these days.
From Newsweek:
(T)he millennials—the cohort born after 1982—but you might call them the Look at Me Generation. Thanks to "The Real World," "Laguna Beach" and the like, they've been documented like no group before them, most especially by themselves: on their blogs, their MySpace, Facebook and Flickr pages, and on YouTube. But are we seeing real people, or personas?
Listen to girls talk about their roles in the WE series "High School Confidential," and they sound like eerily polished publicists—for themselves. Flip through the photo book "One Hundred Young Americans," and you see a collection of pretty young things prepping for fame, not life, such as Jake, who says, "The whole MySpace thing is a good warm-up for when I'm really famous."
Sociologists have begun to question the effect of all this exhibitionism on young people. Can they form durable identities off-camera, or are they so used to producing their images for outside consumption that images have replaced their essences? Will a generation for whom all secrets are fair game and every private moment can become public trust each other and form intimate relationships?
Will all writing and movies become mediocre, three minute snippets instead of the long, drawn out prose and cinematography of yesteryear?!!!!
WILL WE CONTINUE TO HAVE TO WONDER WHAT CHRIS CROCKER THINKS?!
WILL WE EVER BE ABLE TO TRULY LOVE AGAIN!?!!!!!!
I'm gonna go with, probably yeah, I think intimacy will be just fine, but let me call and ask Husband really quick, remind him that whatever answer he gives is going on the blog and see what he has to say about it.
Oh, and I'm really glad Sociologists are worried about the millenals ability to have intimate relationships, that's so nice of them. So nice I want to make a video about it and post it on You Tube.
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