Staying with my 15 year old niece over Christmas has made me want to go into mega rant mode??!!
I can now totally understand how many people are stupid enough to think that they 'know someone' that they have only talked to/communicated with online etc etc.
Try as I might, I could not convince my 15 year old niece that she did not actually know the girlies that she follows on You Tube. The most I could get her to do was admit that they are not her 'besties'.
But she really believes, that because they 'blog' everyday and talk about their lives on You Tube, that she knows them and knows everything about them.
OK; so I'll compare that to my crush on the popstars of the 1970s. I kept scrap books of every picture I could find of my chosen crush. Every time I found out a new fact about them, whether it was their favourite colour or what their first pet was called, I recorded it in my scrapbook. I guess at the time I probably did think that I knew every single thing about them.
However, I was still grounded enough to know, that because I had never ever met them, I didn't actually know them in real life. Sure I knew a lot of trivial facts about the mundane aspects of their life, but I knew that if I ever did meet them in real life and spend some time with them, I'd find out a whole lot more.
The worrying thing about my niece; is that she really believes that she knows these You Tuber girls in real life. She doesn't seem to realise that she only knows what they have chosen to share with the whole world???
In today's world of internet, Skype, text, facebook, intergram, snapchat, twitter, etc, etc, etc, kids actually believe that they 'know' someone if they have communicated with them in one of the above ways????? In fact, in today's world, it's the only way that some of them communicate with their so called friends. In today's world kids can sit in their bedrooms and just have online communications with people and think that they're actually in a 'proper relationship'.
Todays world is a bit scary!!!
I could RANT about loads of things that I've mentioned in this post. There's probably about five or six things that I've talked about that I could rant about, but obviously I won't because this rant is supposed to be about my naïve niece and You tubers!!!!
As mentioned above, I will freely admit that I know nothing about You Tubers. But the thing I find really worrying is the fact that my 15 year old niece really seems to believe that she knows everything about these people's lives.
...................And nothing I can say otherwise will convince her that she doesn't!!!
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