Children fuel internet explosion

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Children are leading the way when it comes to venturing into cyberspace, surfing the net for music and games.

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A year ago around 10 million boys and girls in Europe were using the web, e-mail and instant messaging.

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However, parents should continue to monitor their children's activities and the amount of time they spend on the internet, especially if they are using chatrooms."

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can you think what the kids that were born like 1990, 1989 will be like ... i mean i have a neighbor he has kids they are like 5-6 yeras old and they go online and browse ... any coments ?

and yet I doubt they're allowed to cross the main road o.o

scary...

the natural solution to this is that families with computer literate children and non-computer literate parents tend to get AOL... with all it's restricted functionailty....

it kinda solves itself.

My generation (1960s) was addicted to television. Whatever was broadcast
by the networks, we faithfully watched. Conversations began with "Did you
see what was "on" last night." When I married and had children, I was determined
not to let the TV execs control my kids' minds.

We have no TV. My kids have their own computers. They watch DVD movies, trade
music, instant message etc etc etc. The net is interactive, so it doesn't breed
the kind of intellectual passivity that TV did. TV will soon be dead.

There are great new challenges and dangers in the new technology, but
kids seem up to the challenge, and are fast learners. What they need,
though, is a longer attention span and more patience, so they can
outgrow the "script kiddie" phase of their computer experience,
and look at more complex things than glitzy GUI apps and games.
:cool:

rcgreen: "We have no TV" OHHHHH!!! the shear pain of the thought of no telivision....
Ph the agony...

My parents were nice thay had 2 tellyes....
and when we only had one and it blew up thay borrowed one for us....

Oh telly... Dear sweet telly...



Nightfalls_Girl

I use the computer alot but I don't think I could go on living without the tv.

The only time I do watch the tv is to watch the screen savers, call for help other than that I am online reading tech papers, reference manuals and other things

I don't know. CNN, VH1 and the Weatherchannel are cool. I like to surf with something to drown out my PC's cooling system.

TV is only good for watching Raiders games when you live in Detroit...... OH.... and they have a thing called the animal planet on it too.... that's pretty cool..... Other than that it's mostly BS....

FoodTV is my Favorite. I love to cook and then recursively eat the bounty. Children today have something that we could not fathom. INSTANT access to information. How many times have you all had a disagreement and turned to the internet for instant access to information and clarification. It's building a better society and people are begining to see a larger world and speak with people they would never have 10 years ago. I mean I can almost instantly converse with someone in Russia, Africa, the UK or Austrailia. Neat stuff.

I dont watch much tv. Mainly because there just isnt that much on. Well besides family guy and futurama on cartoon network as well as the great stuff on FoodTV as RoadClosed pointed out. And so i agree. I cant entirely go without tv but the internet does get my mind running and working harder than it would with tv. There is just so much out there that you can discover its almost insane.

PeacE
-BoB

I wathc a lot of the shows on the tech tv channel. i.e Screen Savers, Call for help, Fresh gear, etc. I like watching the Fox News Channel to. The discovery channels has some cool stuff on to.

hmm, i wath night time shows, NYPD blue, Crossing Jordin, Alias,Law and order, SVU, mainly cop and detectiv shows, oh and i watch jerry springer in the day some times. those people just crack me up how thay handle things...and what thay wear!!


Nightfalls_Girl

|The|Specialist likes NYPD blue alot!! Andy is cool... "your under mother ****ing arrest" ... its always entertaining seeing him on that show... lol a short, fat, & bald cop who threatens/beats the **** outta peaple. Its cool...

Other than that, the sci-fi channel, movies on spike-TV, USA, HBO, ShowTime, DVDs, & cartoons... but other than that I pretty much just code in VB and C++, post here, hang in IRC, listen to music, e-mail, & walk around town and pretend that I have something better to do all day. Basicly average ****. I used to be a big gamer but now im mainly doing crap in D2 and the warcraft series. As far as gaming goes im mainly just doing alot of **** on my console games PS2 & (ect) and it all sucks... but GTA rocks though. lol & when I don't have a lady to keep me company I look at porno pics and **** films.

I used to watch the news CNN, MSNBC, FOX-news, NBC-news, intil I saw some of the "Tech-experts" they often bring into the news... ****ing idiots! You can tell it's purely scripted for end users yet they have no idea what they are talking about half the time anyways. And of course seeing the same stupid middle eastern ****ers gets boreing real fast.

I play Battlefield 1942. Pay 100 bucks for 500 channels and watch about 2. I like the digitital music though, have that going 24/7

The evolution of a forum...

When it starts...
Kids on the internet at young ages
The pain and misery of AOL
Kids growing up out of thier script kiddie ways
TV's eventual death
How almost no one watches tv
What people do watch
How they pay a lot of money to only watch two channels

And there you have it, the evolution of a forum.

I was born in 1990, and I have been called stranger things than "computer literate". I don't watch much TV (with the exception of the O'reilly Factor on Fox News, of course). My parents did get AOL, but it isn't to much of a problem. I just stole their passwords and removed all the restrictions from my account. I don't even browse with the AOL browser, it is and always has been a fine piece of crud that takes up 50 megs of space. I use IE for all my surfing. You're right, most kids I know know more about computers than even our school's computer teacher, who's talents are limited to being able to click a menu and push a button. I am continually asked to fix my teachers computers, when most of the time it's just that damn AOL blue-screening Windows again :) !

Yeah, it scares me to think what people growing up in this age are going to be able to do with computers. My 5 year old little brother can browse the web load up his own games (from disc) and draw and type on the computer. He can barely spell, yet he can type on the computer. So I say good for them. Imagine the leaps an bounds that may be covered in the generation to come.


Thanks,
Adiz

yah i know what you mean. my little nefu was only 4 when he first had hands on contact with a computer, he picket it all up really fast.
he can now do any thing on it (with in reason)

Nightfalls_Girl