Another important consideration that people often overlook is that these young teenagers will soon be the leaders of the world. Very soon.
On Feb 26, 2006, at 5:06 AM, Frank Carver wrote: > Sunday, February 26, 2006, 2:39:39 AM, Jay dedman wrote: >> but for whatever reason, MySpace still seems like a dead end. >> doesn't seem like it will last. >> I like to think that media we create will last...so it means >> something >> in the future. >> I wonder if MySpace has that kind of longevity. >> http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=1650209&page=1 > > Unfortunately, longevity is not the point. Longevity is the kind of > thing that concerns the middle-aged rather than the teenagers who form > the backbone of a service like MySpace. > > Most children and young people live in a kind of eternal now, where it > is assumed that things will be like "this" forever. It's not usually > until a little later in life, when you have experienced change, felt > loss and begun to ask yourself the definitive adult question "should > we have children yet?" that longevity becomes a driving force. > > As a real example of this, one of my college students (aged around 17) > while talking about styles of clothing, casually expressed that, in > comparison to fashions from the past (say the 1980s and 1990s), > today's fashions would probably last forever. When I probed a bit > deeper, the explanation was that today's styles are ordinary, > whereas the others were just wierd. > > This attitude, that the the strangeness and change was all in the past > and things will just remain as they are from now on, goes a long way > in trying to understand both the success of observably transient > phenomena such as MySpace, and failure of the many attempts to > interest young people in politics. > > Keeping people in this passive, unquestioning, state is good news for > advertisers and governments, so many cultures have developed elaborate > ways of delaying the onset of adult responsibility. > > -- > Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
