New Culture Frustration
Lately I have found this bothers me more so than it really should. It hasn't recently come to my attention, but more so lingering in the back of my mind.
I find it frustrating that so many people are quick to jump on the first 30 second video, or 3 paragraph "rant", and declare such intense emotion and understanding toward it without any citations or prior background**. Suddenly we have people going from village idiot to area expert over one post/link before hearing both arguments or sides of the story, let alone making any effort to Google it.
I'm sure I'll receive some form of scolding, or be branded as deranged, by saying the media is poison, Facebook is poison, the misconstrued internet is all poison. Although much good has come from the internet, I can't fathom how it spawned these uneducated, selfish monsters. Everything today is always so negative - there's nothing good to say about anyone. "Random acts of kindness" surprise us, and acts of violence turn into "but are you really surprised"?
What happened to being cultured and kind? What happened to actual journalism?
Are these thoughts normal of those that get older as the younger generations surround them? Comparing the 1970's-1980's nuclear family to the 2000's-2010 is a huge leap in societal and cultural differences.
**Buzzfeed is not a credible source, much like TheRightRightest.com, LeftLeftist.com, etc., etc. yet everyone will cite these day-in-day-out.
In my senior year of high-school our English teacher assigned the dreaded, year long, research paper. We had to actually pick up a book, form our own ideology, and then cite the findings we used. Why was this so bad? Why is spoon feeding everyone click-bait articles that you claim you know the full story in just a headline so great? Is somehow reading 5-10 paragraphs of a story going to cause you to keel over and die? Is it really about the money per clicks, have we really become so greedy? It's the cheap, lazy way to become rich right? Are all of us so lazy?
I'm tired of seeing yet another post that is linked to some form of media that contains the comment "I don't know how true this is but... [shares the stupidity anyway]".
Much like your mother told you as a child, if you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say it; If you don't have anything smart to link, then don't link it!
Old and crotchety before 30. YIPPIE!
I find it frustrating that so many people are quick to jump on the first 30 second video, or 3 paragraph "rant", and declare such intense emotion and understanding toward it without any citations or prior background**. Suddenly we have people going from village idiot to area expert over one post/link before hearing both arguments or sides of the story, let alone making any effort to Google it.
I'm sure I'll receive some form of scolding, or be branded as deranged, by saying the media is poison, Facebook is poison, the misconstrued internet is all poison. Although much good has come from the internet, I can't fathom how it spawned these uneducated, selfish monsters. Everything today is always so negative - there's nothing good to say about anyone. "Random acts of kindness" surprise us, and acts of violence turn into "but are you really surprised"?
What happened to being cultured and kind? What happened to actual journalism?
Are these thoughts normal of those that get older as the younger generations surround them? Comparing the 1970's-1980's nuclear family to the 2000's-2010 is a huge leap in societal and cultural differences.
**Buzzfeed is not a credible source, much like TheRightRightest.com, LeftLeftist.com, etc., etc. yet everyone will cite these day-in-day-out.
In my senior year of high-school our English teacher assigned the dreaded, year long, research paper. We had to actually pick up a book, form our own ideology, and then cite the findings we used. Why was this so bad? Why is spoon feeding everyone click-bait articles that you claim you know the full story in just a headline so great? Is somehow reading 5-10 paragraphs of a story going to cause you to keel over and die? Is it really about the money per clicks, have we really become so greedy? It's the cheap, lazy way to become rich right? Are all of us so lazy?
I'm tired of seeing yet another post that is linked to some form of media that contains the comment "I don't know how true this is but... [shares the stupidity anyway]".
Much like your mother told you as a child, if you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say it; If you don't have anything smart to link, then don't link it!
Old and crotchety before 30. YIPPIE!