I have joined up over there at twitter, apparently i have done this before, it told me. Mustn't have stuck with it……
thats just plain flakey.
So anyway i joined again and this time i actually worked out what the little shorthands mean, well some, and tried hard to decipher what a sentence means when it only consists of about 3 actual letters. I know that makes me sound so old….which in fact….
The reason i joined up at twitter was because of something i heard over a year ago in a seminar and it has stayed with me ever since and a few weeks back it just kept coming to mind.
I was in a seminar about parenting and it was being led by a couple whose children were in their twenties…through all the stressy stages no? maybe thats why the parents looked so…i don't know…
clean?
They had finished the seminar and opened up the floor to questions and quick as a flash, almost predictably the question was raised 'my teenager is always on facebook or whatever and i never seem to connect with him/her'
Before the mum could answer, her daughter said quite loudly into the microphone 'get on facebook!"
It was kind of a conversation killer but i thought there was a lot of truth in what she was saying. Our kids are growing up in a very different world. My Isaac, at the age of 8 can operate my phone, the wii, the DVR, TV and any other assorted communication devices. This is their playground, these items are going to be at their disposal when they are old enough to choose or when we eventually give in….and we will…..
because it isn't an anti-social behaviour…it is social behaviour, its their reality in the 21st century and we have to either jump on the train or get left at the station going 'tap tap..is this thing on?"
Hands up who remembers the walkman? yeah? how many parents liked them? not so many. The walkman revolutionised how we listened to music back then and im sure the majority of parents would tutt tutt at the buzzing bee noises that could be heard from the earphones of a walkman user. But look what the walkman started? like a tiny lump of snow at the top of a hill it has started to roll and it grew and grew until it became normal and the 'old' way seemed odd.
So my point is….
…..what was my point?
We are a fairly computer literate family…but im still aware that the kids learn, adapt and adjust quicker than us and we need to, if not keep pace, at least stay fairly close behind in the things that they choose, are marketed at them and that their friends are into. Ignorance is rarely a good excuse…
So that is the reason for my newly embracing attitude to twitter…but this time its grown on me and i sorta like it there. Come find me a follow if you will
me on twitter….
teamjames