Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Enter The Mind Of The 15 Year Old

This Willow Palin FB chat is pretty interesting as I think it gives a window to the way teenagers talk and interact.

Also, some of the boys on here have some pretty hilarious comebacks.

But, that said, I still marvel that FB has kids airing their dirty laundry in public. Kids have always talked to each other this way...but never like this for the world to see.

The other crazy thing to me is that Alaskan kids clearly identify culturally with norcal kids as evidenced by the heavy use of "Hella"... a word I never heard til I met kids from the Bay.

Lastly...and this shows I enjoyed this thing way too much, but how interesting coincidental is it that the two kids who "start" all the trouble are named "Tre & Matt".

3 comments:

Blacktain America said...

at some point in the near future, we will hit the ineligibility singularity. The moment when no one will be eligible for political office due to dumb things they've done on the internet.

that said, this is not the first incident of this type with Palin the younger.

Tony said...

@Blacktain

OR
we will reach a saturation point where we realize that no one is perfect. Where we finally start tearing down the unrealistic expectations for we have for human behavior...or at least tearing down some of the bullshit and artifice we craft around people like politicians, actors, or sports figures.

You can't lie about not smoking weed or sleeping with that woman, because you tweeted about it in 2011. Actors can't hide behind studio makeup and CG to make them look younger or slimmer. Your body is in HD now. This could finally be relief from the decades long tyranny of the unrealistic body image.

Sports figures can finally be seen as ATHLETES, not false paragons of virtue like Tiger Woods pre SUV beatdown.

We could be headed for some interesting times..

Young Atticus said...

was the Bristol in the chat Bristol Palin, or someone else?

This transcript almost made me vow to stop cursing. Reading it really highlights the lack of intellect and vocab that it takes to rely this much on curse words.

I weep for our youth.

and I think that Tony is right. 30 years from now we won't find a candidate who hasn't sexted a picture of themselves. we will have to accept that this was a part of our culture, and move on.