After our group discussion, what choose as our topic is about "communication block formed by technology.". It is such a huge topic if we talk about technology, we contract our topic into mobile and computer last last week. It could be due to a large usage for teenagers to communicate by using messenger, SMS and blogs. There is an interesting discovery as they may not know how to present themselves face to face instead of typing into computer messages.
There are two examples we can show:
Misa mentions about many Japanese teenagers work on sending E-mail or SMS when they are having lunch with their friends in Japan, however, there isn't any conversation between them, so why do they still have lunch with each others?
As Reina said, when he taught in Singapore, Uni get wireless everywhere which makes students chatting by using MSN even though they can talk face to face.
This makes us think about The problem of over using computer becomes a common problem in teenage group. Moreover, our topic is still too large for us to work on. As a result, our final decision as our topic is "communication block formed by messenger and blog".
Why does it become a trend?
Their family is busy in work, they feel loneliness as they want to prove their exist. They can't get any response or they don't think they are exist in the family, especially if they are the only child. Due to adolescence, they don't feel family understand about them, what they only want is to share their feeling to friends or strangers. This is a kind of generation gap formed by children and parents.
How can parents solve this problem?
Case study, Henry's sister, who just reach her 18th birthday. She sends SMS to friends over 1000 messages monthly, what a terrible amount. She doesn't even need to look at the pin during she types so. Her mother feels hard to communicate with her because she doesn't think her mum understand her. When her mum did is to learn how to type SMS as she tries to convey with her through SMS instead of calling or talking face to face. Even she types very slow, but she still persists to do so as it is the only way to get into her daughter's world.
Finally, we start to investigate in to different parts as the cause and effort by messenger and Blog,
1) crime formed as teenagers may meet some strangers through their Blog or messenger
2) their own languages to chat with their friends
3) relationship with their parents/ friends, how different with them
4) benefits
For this reasons, we are doing some interviews to those users in our home countries as we all come from different countries to see the differences between them. Here are the questions what we are going to ask about.
1. What kinds of messenger are you using?
2. How often do you spend in the messenger or blogs?
3. What is the main purpose for you to use the messenger?
4. Have you ever chatted with strangers? How do you feel? Do you like it?
5. Have you ever dated with strangers who meet through the messenger? How do you feel? Do you like it?
6. Do you have Blog? How many?
7. How often do you update your Blog?
8. What is the main purpose for you to use the Blog?
9. What kind of photos do you share on the Blog?
10. Is there any strangers view your Blog? How do you feel? Enjoy? Disgusting? Annoying?
11. (This is for parents) Do you have any way to solve this problem?
Posed by Henry
