Good morning! Ok, I know it’s been awhile, been a little busy. Work has been a trip, but I’m damn happy my ass still has a J-O-B! LOL!
Alright now, I’m going in, so Sunday I’m sitting at home watching some of MTV’s new teen reality show “If You Only Knew Me”. The premise of the show is to focus on several teens at various high schools each week, and it mainly brings to light the major issues that plague most of the student body: cliques(jocks, cheerleaders, nerds), bullying, gossip. So the idea is to kind of break down all of these “wars” that occur within these groups. That’s where a program entitled “Challenge Day” comes into play. The idea of Challenge Day is to break the teens into groups and start off the conversation with “If You Only Knew Me….” Each teen has to discuss something they’ve never divulged to anyone, not even their actual friends. Basically, it’s supposed to help these kids realize that they are no different, not are their problems any different than the next kid.
My reaction to the show was, "It’s About Time!!”. I say this because, I’m thinking to myself when did high school become so complicated, and why did it take so long for a program like this to be introduced to young people? Programs like this, had they been introduced earlier, could have prevented a lot of tragic incident’s within many high schools. Don’t get me wrong, there were always, and will always be cliques, bullies, gossip, and all the other dramas that will occur while being an occupant in the whole high school experience. But these issues have risen to completely different heights with the introduction of media outlets such as Myspace and Facebook. Now kids are talking about each other and bashing each other via these media entities. It’s ridiculous! I used to believe that words hurt, but hurting someone on the web is worse. Everyone can now participate in you or someone else’s humiliation. This is absolutely to me.
Have you ever been speaking with you parent(s) about old times when they were kids, and somehow you always get an episode of “When I Was a Kid…” “When I was a kid…we would fight with our fists. That’s all you needed. Nowadays, you kids use guns to hurt each other; to prove something. That’s not fighting fair”. Well this is the same thing in essence. Teenagers nowadays aren’t fighting fair. They are using these media outlets to say the things they don’t have the nerve to say to the people they are intentionally trying to hurt, their peers. And for the victims of these taunts, there are scars that are left, sure, they will eventually become memories pushed to the past, but they are not forgotten.
It’s sad to think that the world of technology once thought of as a world of wonder and amazement has now turned into the ultimate weapon of destruction for high school teens. I know, a little dramatic, but this is what it is. Anytime you have to use the internet to hurt someone, you’ve gone too far, you’ve said too much, you’ve done the damage. It needs to stop. NOW!!!
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