Good for the Soul

[Winged Isis]

Have some tissues ready to wipe away your tears!

http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/the-25-f ... ts-of-2012

[Grandad]

WI they are amusing and some quite funny but sadly they reflect the increasing inability of todays generations to clearly express themselves.

Do people not read their texts before sending and rely entirely on predictive text to 'guess' what they really meant from just a few keystrokes?

And along with that has gone the ability to 'discuss' and join in conversation. My teenage grandchildren all seem to live by their smartphones which are constantly 'grafted' to their hands. But try to draw them into conversation and they become monosyllable zombies.

Touchy subject with me I am afraid because I am not too impressed with todays young generation or todays teaching methods.

Sorry to put a downer on your post because taken on face value they are really very funny.

[Horus]

They are funny Grandad, but I have to wholeheartedly agree about the Zombie effect, my youngest two grand kids are (even if I say so myself) extremely bright and both do really well at school. However much as their parents moderate their watching of TV and consumption of junk food and to be honest spend far more time engaging with them than I could ever find the time to do with my own two, they are still Zombies when they have an ipod or similar in their hands. You don't know that the lad is there half the time as he is so quiet and in his own little world, not bad mannered I would hasten to add and very well behaved, but even a casual question about something at school is usually met by a very lively "Oh yes Granddad we did ancient Egypt today" and a cheery smile, then head down again, no real conversation. It is as though their whole world has turned inward and everyone lives in isolation.

[LovelyLadyLux]

You can literally see kids going into the zone as they tune out these days.

Personally when I was a kid I was thrilled to hear anything, especially gossipy tidbits, the adults had to say. As a kid I wasn't necessarily invited to join in an adult conversation and I lived by "seen but not heard" rules. That rule seems to have come full circle now.

If IT/Technology is in the hands the brain just tunes out.

Conversation is a dying art and the art of story telling is close to gone.