Our parents had it so easy…a letter was theirs to be
sneakily read, a phone call, to be eavesdropped. But we live in a world
of pinging secret text messages. Codes, acronyms and apps never to be
translated – or even known. It’s another shift. A new vocabulary
with apps that are missing vowels (tumblr), and acronyms that are meant to
leave us out of the story (PIR: Parent in Room).
Where is Benedict Cumberbatch (a.k.a. Sherlock, Alan Turing)
when you need him?
Welcome to the new reality. But what feels like a tidal
shift to us, is just a new software update for our teens.
When I bring up teens and social media with my friends, we share
the eye roll; the heavy sign; the shaking of the head. And, inevitably,
one of us gives voice to the old lament – the refrain of generations past,
“What’s to become of kids today?”
In this, “Growing Up Female and Social - Part II,” I reveal my Digital Daughter
Ambassadors answers to what they think we don’t get about
social media and what they would like us to know.
