Lot's of Baby Boomers Are Fortunate
Johnny Manziel wins the Heisman Trophy 2012. He's only 20 years old and imagine a college football player that goes to a fraternity party. If you're Johnny Football that's news.
Maybe it is a little naïve these days to think that going to a University of Texas frat party if you attend Texas A&M and are the Heisman Trophy winner that you might be asked to leave, that there is drinking at the party, bad language and that the whole thing will be recorded on someone telephone.
Maybe Normal, Illinois isn't Austin and I'm not a Heisman Trophy winner. I was the manager for the basketball team in high school and to some as nerdy as they get. I am ever so glad they did not have cell phone cameras in the 1970's.
This isn't a shout out to Tricky Dick. Why didn't you burn those tapes?
Parents have a lot of things to worry about when they send their kids off to school. I'm not sure when the kid get the lecture about bad behavior when they are away from home these days. Not that long ago when I was a substitute teacher at an elementary school it was ok to have a cell phone policy that included confiscation and a trip to the office to get it back, if it was seen during class. They were viewed as a distraction. Now they are a dictionary/encyclopedia/calculator, teaching aid and communication device and for some of the little ones their first chance to be a reporter, snitch, or source for one of those shows that mines home videos.
Calling home from school and checking on your kid is probably way too easy these days. What technology allows you to do these days doesn't mean you should do it.
It's really gotten beyond government surveillance. You can justify just about anything these days based on security, freedom and risk management. It's more than a little creepy and threatening and if you are a kid these days will you ever be able to hit the reset button? Maybe instead of the wild west days of checking you guns at the door, you put your phone in a lock box.
Some gatherings these days might benefit. Conversation over a meal should be normal, too often just about everybody under the age of forty feels the need to be connected to something else when they should be enjoying dinner company.
Folks my age should be relieved we did not have cell phones with cameras when were younger.
Maybe it is a little naïve these days to think that going to a University of Texas frat party if you attend Texas A&M and are the Heisman Trophy winner that you might be asked to leave, that there is drinking at the party, bad language and that the whole thing will be recorded on someone telephone.
Maybe Normal, Illinois isn't Austin and I'm not a Heisman Trophy winner. I was the manager for the basketball team in high school and to some as nerdy as they get. I am ever so glad they did not have cell phone cameras in the 1970's.
This isn't a shout out to Tricky Dick. Why didn't you burn those tapes?
Parents have a lot of things to worry about when they send their kids off to school. I'm not sure when the kid get the lecture about bad behavior when they are away from home these days. Not that long ago when I was a substitute teacher at an elementary school it was ok to have a cell phone policy that included confiscation and a trip to the office to get it back, if it was seen during class. They were viewed as a distraction. Now they are a dictionary/encyclopedia/calculator, teaching aid and communication device and for some of the little ones their first chance to be a reporter, snitch, or source for one of those shows that mines home videos.
Calling home from school and checking on your kid is probably way too easy these days. What technology allows you to do these days doesn't mean you should do it.
It's really gotten beyond government surveillance. You can justify just about anything these days based on security, freedom and risk management. It's more than a little creepy and threatening and if you are a kid these days will you ever be able to hit the reset button? Maybe instead of the wild west days of checking you guns at the door, you put your phone in a lock box.
Some gatherings these days might benefit. Conversation over a meal should be normal, too often just about everybody under the age of forty feels the need to be connected to something else when they should be enjoying dinner company.
Folks my age should be relieved we did not have cell phones with cameras when were younger.
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