Here’s Looking at… Me!!!
Posted by Blaine on March 18, 2008
I receive regular emails with links to youth ministry/ youth culture articles and websites. Recently, Newsweek did an article on the the “look at me generation”. It makes some interesting notes about this generation’s view of “reality” television and documenting their lives before a camera or on the internet. Anyway, I found this article interesting:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/123484
What do you think?
As a person who documents a portion of his everyday life, but doesn’t document EVERYTHING about it, there are obviously degrees of ‘reality’ and many of us bloggers and others online who are just using this relatively new medium of being judged by our peers… to put forth yet another facade to an even larger audience. - instead of doing cool things in ‘person’ and in front of people, we just post a video on myspace. Like those soldiers in that article, many people just don’t realize that realities and presentations of ourselves online or on television aren’t controlled in the same way that we control our styles of dress or who we hangout with.
The same thing would’ve happened with radio and print if they were as easily accessed by everyone like the internet.
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