What's A Stamp?

Found this while surfing the internet. It's funny in a way, but also a sad commentary on getting kids interested in stamps in this generation when so many other things that occupy their interest.

There are those who complain about the Internet and other e-technologies......saying that kids are losing touch with "traditional" behaviour, communications, etc.

Here's another view. Kids are sending and receiving more information today than ever before. And they are writing messages to each other - what we used to call "sending letters." The fact that they are using new media is incidental. I'd say the really dark days were the decades when letter writing - of any sort - had gone out of fashion. So before people start projecting these trends into philately.....................

It made me laugh. How the kid managed to say that without flinching is amazing. It's like he's thinking "What the *** Edited by Staff | The bad word filter is in place for a reason. Bypassing the filter and making the intended word obvious anyway is completely unacceptable. *** is that?" hahaha

What Moonbird said is indeed true. They communicated more than I did in the 1980s. Internet opened them up to many more people then I knew when I was a kid but it also made them vulnerable to more negative things. There's always a trade-off.
Is the Internet detrimental? I still think it can be when consumed too much, especially at a young age. As much communication they can get over the internet, most of them will work in an office, and face-to-face communication is very different.
Plus, sitting on a chair all day playing game or chatting, doesn't do any good to the body (weight, etc), and sports and fun is so interesting from time to time. Sports teaching you things internet can't.
And collecting or having hobbies is also important, be it reading book, collecting stamps, hockey cards, barbie dolls, hot wheels, hub caps!

A good balance makes for a happy life.

I'm a curmudgeon. We live in an era of data overload. I once read that there's more information in one daily newspaper than a working-class person in the 18th century would absorb in a LIFETIME.

We live in a world where everything is instant, you're always contactable, 37% of people sleep with their cell phone within reach, and privacy is shot.

As much as I love the internet, which to me is a giant library, I detest the immediacy of society today. Where's the peace?

it must be self-inflicted. Put the phone on silent or turn it off. Go out and mow the lawn or take a walk rather than read your emails. My job has me in front of a computer 9 hours a day. I force myself to not use my home PC too much.

I like just thumbing through my albums to look at stamps I had forgotten I had...no electronic age there...

Self-inflicted or expected in today's corporate world?

I think that communication, whether by letter, email or voice is a different thing and uses different skills worthy of learning than the internet's making vast quantities of information available to many people.

The availability of the information does not mean that people will access it more than they did when it was just in books. I think it is a fantastic learning aid but a person has to want to learn in the first place.

I enjoy reading books and do not think that the electronic media has any comparison to it. They are different ways to focus on a story, a learning experience, data, information presented in ways that convey meaning. One absorbs new information when one is more relaxed (watching TV) but it is hard to question and consider this electronic information in the same way that that you have when you have learned to read books and are actually thinking about something.

But, even books take on new meanings and show new insights after a time away and a rereading. Perhaps it is the human animal and thought could be bent towards the consideration of how we take in and use information, not just for commercial and advertising reasons but for our own peace of mind and well being.

I noticed, that children are unable to express their feelings. They are used to use short messages. Sometimes it's useful, because they can concentrate loads of information into short message, but they are loosing touch with the beauty of language. We aren't far away from situation, when child answers on the question "How are you?" showing smiling emoticon on their handy.