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‘Talking and texting’ generation
Cell phones, computers, iPods rule lives of teens addicted to gadgets
By DANA BOONE
REGISTER STAFF WRITER
June 6, 2006
Technology rules the “talking and texting” generation - also known as Generation M for multi-tasking . . . Teens live for their computers and electronic gadgets. But all the cell phones, text messages, e-mails and time spent on MySpace.com come with a price: total dependency.
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August 10th, 2006 at 12:33 am
After reading that article I realized that teenagers these days have it so much better than when I was a teen. Technology has become much more accessible and ubiquitous.
Young people today have PSP’s and video games in the palms of their hands, but my generation had to call up our friend (on a land line!) and go down to the local pizza parlour or bowling alley to play arcade games, often having to wait in line to play(!)
The teenage slasher movies of the ’80’s wouldn’t necessarily be applicable in today’s technological society, since cell phones in the hands of the terrorized teens could have alerted the authorities of the boogeymen with mullet-styled hair. Phone booths were a common, but un-useful tool in such movies, with an unsympathic-sounding operator on the other end of the phone line, resulting in the tragic demise of a technologically-deprived victim.
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August 10th, 2006 at 12:47 am
I should have written, “technology-deprived” victim in the last sentence.
Mrs. Felmey
August 11th, 2006 at 9:22 pm
I know the multi-tasking series is done but here is one more link for an article that was published in The LA Times and The Orlando Sentinel.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/lifestyle/orl-lapollhome06aug11,0,5128310.storylished
August 11th, 2006 at 9:23 pm
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/lifestyle/orl-lapollhome06aug11,0,5128310.story
Whoops, that other link didn’t work. Hopefully, this one is right.
August 12th, 2006 at 7:12 am
I think that all of these technologies could be used for a godly purpose (except for maybe the video games).I think it all depends on how much time we are spending on it and how much of an importance we put on myspace,internet,cell phone,ect.We need to learn to chose between what`s a waste of time and what is a good reason to spend a certain amount of time in”blank”. All things are permitted,but not all things are good for you.