What She Said

[poliphilo]

Here's something Bonnie Greer said the other day (wording only approximate:) "The young are living in a world that those of us who grew up before the IT revolution cannot begin to understand and should mostly shut up about."

I couldn't agree more. And it comes to mind everytime the media is swept by a moral panic about some internet trend or app or whatever.

Today it's Tinder. A TV journalist on Channel 4 who didn't look much older than 30 (but still too old to understand) had signed up for the service pretending to be a teen and was saying to us, for all the world like some red-faced Victorian paterfamilias, "Would you like your daughter....?"

And I thought, " Oh, stop making such an exhibition of yourself..."

Comments

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Oh so true .. some of it even evades me !

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'm happy to paddle in the shallows of the internet.

[splodgenoodles.livejournal.com]

Excellent point. Too much moral panic.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

When one feels a moral panic coming on one should sit down in a darkened room and have a nice cup of tea.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Too much moral panic, indeed. But I disagree about old folks not being able to understand. Some of us have been so immersed in the online environment for business reasons that we feel pretty comfortable, even if we do speak digital with an accent.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Of course, for optimal irony, we can always rely on the Flail, who'll rail against such horrors, new fangled or traditional, on one page, and gush over some starlet's 14 year old daughter who's "all grown up", complete with paparazzi photo of her in a swimsuit.

Could you see the pearls being clutched?