August 18, 2008

The New Language Of Today’s Children

It seems that the younger generation seriously have lost the art of communication. Yet how is this so, given that communication channels have moved on with technology, bringing us the mobile phone and email, which should, in theory keep us in touch even more than before?
Well, it’s true. We do have more options but what happened to old fashioned communication skills - you know the ones, talking and writing? Technological gadgets are no longer the domain of adults but of children. If it’s cool and electronic, they have it.
Mp3 players and iPods for their music downloads, electronic diaries and planners for their hectic social lives, mobile phones for that furious texting art, digital cameras and video to record their days and computers and laptops for emailing, photo sharing and more music downloads.
There have been reports that 224 children (unofficial figure) have been injured this year whilst walking and texting at the same time. It is impossible to see where you are going while you are feeding your addiction of texting useless information to your mates in words abbreviated to two or three letters that resembles a code your parents could never decipher.
Injuries have also occurred that can be attributed to […]

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