Dear Blog Readers;
Do you find yourself using the word gay, inappropriately, as a derogatory term? Are you falsely portraying a hatred for the homosexual community? If you understood the previous questions then probably not as it is the under educated that are the worst perpetrators. I myself find myself using the word 'gay' inappropriately more and more frequently as my education in secondary school goes on. It is a rather popular word amongst my peers and is often used as a pathetic, - some may argue - unharmful, insult. The fact of the matter is, that unknowingly these people are putting themselves in a bad light and could get themselves into trouble.
It is completely unacceptable to make a racist comment now-a-days and one could get you arrested. My question is, why is this way of mind not applied to every insult. Homophobic behaviour is not exactly frowned upon in modern day culture and there is a lot of double standards. 'Our society is equal' yet I am becoming more and more aware of the fact women get payed less than men and that stereotypes are impossible to get around. Although, in some cases, such as humour and drama, stereotypes are in fact a very good thing, it is stereotyping that continues wars, it is stereotyping that creates friction, it is stereotyping that stems inequality.
It is obvious that communism is unachievable but it should be a basic right for everyone to be accepted until they have shown good reason to be unaccepted. A good reason is not sexuality. It is my opinion that one calling someone gay is only an insult to the person one's self.
I hope that one day, people will stamp out prejudice as it can be very hurtful.
Yours Youngsters_World.
Tuesday, 10 August 2010
Monday, 9 August 2010
Big Brother or Big Cheer as Series Ends?
Dear Blog Reader;
I am sure you are all glued to your screens, following every move of the, now celebrities, in the Big Brother house. You are all probably won over by Josie Gibson's Bristolian charms and her romance with John James Parton and his Australian anger. Or probably not, as the case may be. Viewers tuning into what I am told, was once a popular TV show, are now dwindling.
I am a new Big Brother super fan and as this is the first and what will become the last series I watch. This is, in my opinion, a tragic fact. I personally love Big Brother and pride myself of being able to say, I have watched every single episode of BB11, so far. I have even stayed up 'til 4 in the morning to watch Big Brother LIVE and I religously watch BBLB to stay 'ahead of the house'.
Although, among most of my peers, Big Brother is considered 'a load of rubbish' and, in frank words, not worth the time of day, I am not bothered. Big Brother is one of the many things that has caused me to disregard the opinions of my 'equals'.
I am obsessed with Big Brother, but, there are a lot of people who cannot accept the concept. They say 'it's all fake' without considering that maybe, 'fakeness' makes good TV?
I have come to question why many watchers have come to switch off, but I have finally come to a conclusion. Big Brother is a repetitive show that appears to be addictive for the first 10 years, but then becomes incredibly boring? I think it is actually more to do with the fact the people in the house are just uninteresting. I, obviously, have yet to see the repetitiveness and so am rather enjoying the whole thing, but my parents on the other hand, are getting very annoyed. They are forever telling me to 'watch it later' or to 'go upstairs and watch it' and I think this is a sign of the older generation becoming less and less open minded, or it could be that they just hate the series?
I watch far too much TV anyway, without the addition of my new found obsession and so it is probably a good thing that it is the last series. Although, it will still remain my life long ambition to appear in the Big Brother house, I know that this can never happen. I shall inform you when, or if, I ever beat my 'addiction' to BB. Admitting it is the first step right?
Yours, the BB addict Youngsters_World.
I am sure you are all glued to your screens, following every move of the, now celebrities, in the Big Brother house. You are all probably won over by Josie Gibson's Bristolian charms and her romance with John James Parton and his Australian anger. Or probably not, as the case may be. Viewers tuning into what I am told, was once a popular TV show, are now dwindling.
I am a new Big Brother super fan and as this is the first and what will become the last series I watch. This is, in my opinion, a tragic fact. I personally love Big Brother and pride myself of being able to say, I have watched every single episode of BB11, so far. I have even stayed up 'til 4 in the morning to watch Big Brother LIVE and I religously watch BBLB to stay 'ahead of the house'.
Although, among most of my peers, Big Brother is considered 'a load of rubbish' and, in frank words, not worth the time of day, I am not bothered. Big Brother is one of the many things that has caused me to disregard the opinions of my 'equals'.
I am obsessed with Big Brother, but, there are a lot of people who cannot accept the concept. They say 'it's all fake' without considering that maybe, 'fakeness' makes good TV?
I have come to question why many watchers have come to switch off, but I have finally come to a conclusion. Big Brother is a repetitive show that appears to be addictive for the first 10 years, but then becomes incredibly boring? I think it is actually more to do with the fact the people in the house are just uninteresting. I, obviously, have yet to see the repetitiveness and so am rather enjoying the whole thing, but my parents on the other hand, are getting very annoyed. They are forever telling me to 'watch it later' or to 'go upstairs and watch it' and I think this is a sign of the older generation becoming less and less open minded, or it could be that they just hate the series?
I watch far too much TV anyway, without the addition of my new found obsession and so it is probably a good thing that it is the last series. Although, it will still remain my life long ambition to appear in the Big Brother house, I know that this can never happen. I shall inform you when, or if, I ever beat my 'addiction' to BB. Admitting it is the first step right?
Yours, the BB addict Youngsters_World.
Social Networking. A source of information or a waste of revision time?
Dear Blog Readers,
Am I addicted? My generation is stereotyped as a 'bunch of hoodlems'. We are seen as hooded chavs addicted to heroin and smoking 20 a-day. It is my opinion that whilst my generation are addicts, they are addicted to a different kind of pot: Social Networking.
I am writing my blog tonight waiting for Big Brother to start whilst posting on Facebook and my newly joined Twitter account. One could call it multi-tasking, or in most people my age's eyes, it's just a typical Monday night. Yes, it's the summer holidays, but is social networking just a massive waste of time?
Once one has logged onto an unnamed social networking site, code named 'portrait-read' - no prizes for guessing which site this is - one is bombarded by annoyingly useless, yet unbelievably addicting to join, groups with names such as 'HAVE YOU SERIOUSLY LIKED YOUR OWN STATUS' which, not only being extremely hypocritical, clogs up one's 'wall' and takes valuable, now wasted, seconds to read. There are such groups on the lines of ':o look at this picture of Cheryl Cole!! - Must see' make one click on them, thus wasting even more time, especially if one's Internet connection is slow, 'LIKE' them, to 'see the picture' that actually doesn't even exist. It's very hard to pass up a group that is persuasively named and I find myself 'liking' an unmeasurable number of groups and pages within every hour spent on 'portraitread'.
I spend near enough every waking hour on 'portrait-read', with my new 'portraitread' itouch app making it every bit easier. I use 'portrait-read' as my hourly source of information about my 341 'close' friends, furiously 'liking' and 'commenting' on my 'dearest' friends statuses. The box labelled 'What's on your mind?' is, in my opinion, poorly labelled. I think it should be dubbed 'Post your entry for the 'who had the most depressing day' competition.' It seems, that I have added every single depressed teenage girl in the South. It also amazes me how 'portraitread' has managed to get millions of people to talk about themselves in third person.
I have liked nearly 300 groups since joining 9 months ago. My question is, is this a waste of time? Well, the answer is yes. I mean, being on Facebook isn't making me money, in fact, it's doing exactly the opposite.
People are always lecturing me on how getting good GCSE results will severely increase my chances of getting a high payed job, yet still, I do next to no revision, fullstop. Procrastination is a serious problem for my generation. To put it completely obviously and honestly, I'd rather 'waste' my time being humorous on 'potrait-read' than have my nose in a book, studying. Cramming, minutes before the exam, seems far more appealing than missing out on my free time. I have told myself that, when it comes to GCSEs i will mentally ban myself from social networking, but, realistically, I don't think so. If I fail my exams, I am blaming social networking.
Although I am sure I will regret it for life, but, pointless group liking and addictive notification replying, is the way forward.
Yours Youngsters_World
Am I addicted? My generation is stereotyped as a 'bunch of hoodlems'. We are seen as hooded chavs addicted to heroin and smoking 20 a-day. It is my opinion that whilst my generation are addicts, they are addicted to a different kind of pot: Social Networking.
I am writing my blog tonight waiting for Big Brother to start whilst posting on Facebook and my newly joined Twitter account. One could call it multi-tasking, or in most people my age's eyes, it's just a typical Monday night. Yes, it's the summer holidays, but is social networking just a massive waste of time?
Once one has logged onto an unnamed social networking site, code named 'portrait-read' - no prizes for guessing which site this is - one is bombarded by annoyingly useless, yet unbelievably addicting to join, groups with names such as 'HAVE YOU SERIOUSLY LIKED YOUR OWN STATUS' which, not only being extremely hypocritical, clogs up one's 'wall' and takes valuable, now wasted, seconds to read. There are such groups on the lines of ':o look at this picture of Cheryl Cole!! - Must see' make one click on them, thus wasting even more time, especially if one's Internet connection is slow, 'LIKE' them, to 'see the picture' that actually doesn't even exist. It's very hard to pass up a group that is persuasively named and I find myself 'liking' an unmeasurable number of groups and pages within every hour spent on 'portraitread'.
I spend near enough every waking hour on 'portrait-read', with my new 'portraitread' itouch app making it every bit easier. I use 'portrait-read' as my hourly source of information about my 341 'close' friends, furiously 'liking' and 'commenting' on my 'dearest' friends statuses. The box labelled 'What's on your mind?' is, in my opinion, poorly labelled. I think it should be dubbed 'Post your entry for the 'who had the most depressing day' competition.' It seems, that I have added every single depressed teenage girl in the South. It also amazes me how 'portraitread' has managed to get millions of people to talk about themselves in third person.
I have liked nearly 300 groups since joining 9 months ago. My question is, is this a waste of time? Well, the answer is yes. I mean, being on Facebook isn't making me money, in fact, it's doing exactly the opposite.
People are always lecturing me on how getting good GCSE results will severely increase my chances of getting a high payed job, yet still, I do next to no revision, fullstop. Procrastination is a serious problem for my generation. To put it completely obviously and honestly, I'd rather 'waste' my time being humorous on 'potrait-read' than have my nose in a book, studying. Cramming, minutes before the exam, seems far more appealing than missing out on my free time. I have told myself that, when it comes to GCSEs i will mentally ban myself from social networking, but, realistically, I don't think so. If I fail my exams, I am blaming social networking.
Although I am sure I will regret it for life, but, pointless group liking and addictive notification replying, is the way forward.
Yours Youngsters_World
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