Social networking sites can give young users "the sense of them being the center of the universe," Bauerlein says.
That gives them a distorted understanding of how the world works, he says. "If you go into a room of strangers, you don't know how to relate. You can't replicate your IM habits," he says. "It closes people off from a wider engagement with the world."
The full article in USA Today is not too deep, but gives some food for thought. Perhaps I'll put the book on my reading list.
2 comments:
it's amazon what people say when they really don't understand social psychology. It doesn't matter what stodgy old people say the next generation will always find new better an different ways to do things that will drive older generations nuts. This has been the status quo from the begining of time. Get over it.
You make a valid point that critiques of certain aspects of an emerging generation by an older generation are often times simply a refusal to embrace a new paradigm or a new way of doing things. However, you have made some broad generalizations, and I would challenge the idea that everything new and different is better. Does an older generation have any place to appraise and evaluate changes occurring in culture? If so, how can we know if a critique is thoughtful or if it's simply a case of "stodgy old people" being—stodgy?
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