Youth celebrate holiday online
Spring Festival celebrations were given a distinctly high-tech update by millions of young Internet users in China this week.
"Compared to the traditional way, celebrating Spring Festival on the Internet is more exciting," said Wei Jianhui, 23, who spent New Year's Eve chatting with dozens of friends online.
Yang didn't watch the New Year's Day television gala, which attracted an estimated audience of more than 1 billion people last Sunday evening.
Instead, Wei, who lives in this capital of Jiangxi Province, spent New Year's Eve decorating his blog with red lanterns and firecrackers.
"When they visit my blog, my friends will see my New Year's greetings," said Wei.
Wei said more than 30 of his friends spent New Year's Eve chatting on the Internet.
Many young people in Nanchang celebrated Chinese New Year in the same way.
The manager of Jingying Internet Cafe said all of its 300 computers were occupied on New Year's Eve. Four other Internet cafes in the area were also full.
(China Daily 02/24/2007 page3)
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-02/24/content_812779.htm
Posted by Summer
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Do today's blogging teenagers have no sense of shame?
Do today's blogging teenagers have no sense of shame?
By Anne Karpf (China Daily)
Updated: 2007-03-13 07:09
When my children come home from school, their preferred form of chilling out is logging on. While the younger one contents herself with designing a cyber-home on The Sims simulation game (in spooky imitation of what her mother is doing in the embodied world), the older one makes straight for MySpace. There she chronicles her life and times.
I can't be sure because I haven't looked (unless you count the time she left it open on her father's computer), not only because I know I'd find it disturbing, but also because she'd hate me to.
Here's the paradox: She and her friends are happy to parade the intimacies of their lives to everyone except those who, on a day-to-day basis at least, live closest to them and have known them longest.
Of course it's not really paradoxical: They're communicating with their peers and creating their adolescent persona, and don't want us around watching. In fact, they're doing exactly what we did at their age, even if we did it through physical space the telephone and the diary.
Blog self-exposure
But what's shocking to us is the extent of self-exposure they embrace. These kids live their lives online, but to their parents it feels like public nudity.
A survey of 1,019 teenagers reported last week that only one in 10 of them wrote a diary compared with the 47 percent of them who blog.
Could there have been, in the seven or eight years since the arrival of the blog and online diary, a cultural shift of such a size that the privacy of the bound diary is now regarded as some quaint, pre-digital relic, as derisory to young people as some Victorian ideas about modesty now appear to us?
It's easy to come over all nostalgic for the Dear-Diary era. Searching for one I kept during a particularly intense six months in my teens the one that logged every single kiss and fondle, the one my kids are dying to get their hands on, which luckily is still hiding in one of the boxes unopened since my house move I found another, written in the year my first child was born, noting every burp (hers) and cry (mine).
Diary generation
From kissing to burping: I've written diaries, it seems, only in times of overwhelming emotions, where writing offers the prospect of taming feeling.
Is it any different today? I just read a poignant posting on MyDearDiary.com from someone about to go to court to testify to try to stop her mother going to prison: "It's nice to be able to come on here and vent about everything."
Yes, many blogs are horribly banal, but the idea that diaries were private and permanent, and blogs are public and ephemeral we're all exhibitionists now seems a little too easy.
Alan Bennett says that diaries are a conversation with yourself but he published his, and even Anne Frank revised hers for publication. Many young bloggers archive their blogs.
This gives them not only the fixity of the page but also all that future pleasure of laughing at their younger self, realizing that everything they once felt certain about they now doubt, and everything they had doubts about now belongs in the realm of certainty.
The diary gives you evidence against yourself; perhaps the blog will too.
Sneer and fear
Those of us from the generation of the book inevitably sneer at and fear MySpace, where teenagers think nothing of recording their late period alongside their favorite band.
An article in the New York Times last month argued that young people today not only have a much less developed sense of shame than their parents but they also live their lives in front of a kind of invisible audience.
As, they reason, ours is already a surveillance society, why not seize control and display ourselves?
I can't pretend I understand, but then that's probably a good thing. Parents need to be on standby through the crucible of adolescence, ready with a fire extinguisher to douse any leaping flames, but at a safe distance.
Our kids are separating, and developing a sexual identity. They do have a sense of privacy it's just not a public/private one, but an old/young one. Their blogs, like our diaries, are out of bounds. They can't read mine, and I won't read theirs.
The Guardian
(China Daily 03/13/2007 page10)
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2007-03/13/content_826159.htm
Posted by Summer
By Anne Karpf (China Daily)
Updated: 2007-03-13 07:09
When my children come home from school, their preferred form of chilling out is logging on. While the younger one contents herself with designing a cyber-home on The Sims simulation game (in spooky imitation of what her mother is doing in the embodied world), the older one makes straight for MySpace. There she chronicles her life and times.
I can't be sure because I haven't looked (unless you count the time she left it open on her father's computer), not only because I know I'd find it disturbing, but also because she'd hate me to.
Here's the paradox: She and her friends are happy to parade the intimacies of their lives to everyone except those who, on a day-to-day basis at least, live closest to them and have known them longest.
Of course it's not really paradoxical: They're communicating with their peers and creating their adolescent persona, and don't want us around watching. In fact, they're doing exactly what we did at their age, even if we did it through physical space the telephone and the diary.
Blog self-exposure
But what's shocking to us is the extent of self-exposure they embrace. These kids live their lives online, but to their parents it feels like public nudity.
A survey of 1,019 teenagers reported last week that only one in 10 of them wrote a diary compared with the 47 percent of them who blog.
Could there have been, in the seven or eight years since the arrival of the blog and online diary, a cultural shift of such a size that the privacy of the bound diary is now regarded as some quaint, pre-digital relic, as derisory to young people as some Victorian ideas about modesty now appear to us?
It's easy to come over all nostalgic for the Dear-Diary era. Searching for one I kept during a particularly intense six months in my teens the one that logged every single kiss and fondle, the one my kids are dying to get their hands on, which luckily is still hiding in one of the boxes unopened since my house move I found another, written in the year my first child was born, noting every burp (hers) and cry (mine).
Diary generation
From kissing to burping: I've written diaries, it seems, only in times of overwhelming emotions, where writing offers the prospect of taming feeling.
Is it any different today? I just read a poignant posting on MyDearDiary.com from someone about to go to court to testify to try to stop her mother going to prison: "It's nice to be able to come on here and vent about everything."
Yes, many blogs are horribly banal, but the idea that diaries were private and permanent, and blogs are public and ephemeral we're all exhibitionists now seems a little too easy.
Alan Bennett says that diaries are a conversation with yourself but he published his, and even Anne Frank revised hers for publication. Many young bloggers archive their blogs.
This gives them not only the fixity of the page but also all that future pleasure of laughing at their younger self, realizing that everything they once felt certain about they now doubt, and everything they had doubts about now belongs in the realm of certainty.
The diary gives you evidence against yourself; perhaps the blog will too.
Sneer and fear
Those of us from the generation of the book inevitably sneer at and fear MySpace, where teenagers think nothing of recording their late period alongside their favorite band.
An article in the New York Times last month argued that young people today not only have a much less developed sense of shame than their parents but they also live their lives in front of a kind of invisible audience.
As, they reason, ours is already a surveillance society, why not seize control and display ourselves?
I can't pretend I understand, but then that's probably a good thing. Parents need to be on standby through the crucible of adolescence, ready with a fire extinguisher to douse any leaping flames, but at a safe distance.
Our kids are separating, and developing a sexual identity. They do have a sense of privacy it's just not a public/private one, but an old/young one. Their blogs, like our diaries, are out of bounds. They can't read mine, and I won't read theirs.
The Guardian
(China Daily 03/13/2007 page10)
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2007-03/13/content_826159.htm
Posted by Summer
Questionnaire Interviewing Hong Kong Teenagers
Nation of Interviewee: Hong Kong
Age Group of Interviewees: 16- 19 years old
During the survey, most of the interviewees believe they believe they have generation gap between them and their parents even though they have get conversation. Teenagers feel parents don't understand what are they thinking about. One of the interviewees mentions it is difficult to tell her parents about her own problem. She feels that is embarrassed, as she doesn't want to make them worry as well.
Moreover, when we are talking more about the benefits or side effort to use messenger or blog, one interviewee mentions that "Let me think more deeply about myself and life (reflection!), encourage people to talk more often, let me see other peoples life."
An interesting discovery in this survey was found that youth would like to discuss some embarrassing topic through messengers or their blogs, they believe the privacy is more than what they talk face to face.
Why is it?
What is the difference between discussing through messengers and talking face to face? They still do those embarrassing topic.
It is really an interesting thing to think about it.
Posed by Henry.
Age Group of Interviewees: 16- 19 years old
During the survey, most of the interviewees believe they believe they have generation gap between them and their parents even though they have get conversation. Teenagers feel parents don't understand what are they thinking about. One of the interviewees mentions it is difficult to tell her parents about her own problem. She feels that is embarrassed, as she doesn't want to make them worry as well.
Moreover, when we are talking more about the benefits or side effort to use messenger or blog, one interviewee mentions that "Let me think more deeply about myself and life (reflection!), encourage people to talk more often, let me see other peoples life."
An interesting discovery in this survey was found that youth would like to discuss some embarrassing topic through messengers or their blogs, they believe the privacy is more than what they talk face to face.
Why is it?
What is the difference between discussing through messengers and talking face to face? They still do those embarrassing topic.
It is really an interesting thing to think about it.
Posed by Henry.
our thoughts on blogging
While we were having meeting, we chat and shared what we have found so far. What we discovered and the blogging atmosphere in our own country.
As our survey positively responded that communication through technology is not a great harm to relationship with parents but it has somehow decreased the time we spent together with them physically or chatting face to face. Living abroad is a disadvantage as we have no choice and telephone/computeres are the one only source that we depend on to updates them on our lives here. From my experience, I feel that I appreaciate my family more in the sense that I realise how much I miss them. Sometimes we never know what is important to us until we feel their absence.
On the other hand, blogging has seem to be addiction to some teenagers and also adults. Regardless on how tired they are after work, they would spend some time ranting about what they did or what they are stressing on with work. We could say it is like a therapy for them when they spill their thoughts and worry in words. As I know, blogs have a function that protects your privacy and you could select who you want to view your blog. Therefore they need not worry if a stranger from elsewhere is stalking on them.
The other issue we discussed about is that blogging has inevitably cause the lack of subject to share when we meet our family or friends face to face for they have already know what happened and the details of it. Also, we believe that speaking and typing has a huge difference in delivering our thoughts to others. Although it seems to be similar but when it is put to action, the difference is there because we believe speaking is harder than typing. If one is so used to typing, they would feel uncomfortable talking with people face to face and we think that it is not beneficial as it might affect our presentation skills in work.
posted by: cyndi
As our survey positively responded that communication through technology is not a great harm to relationship with parents but it has somehow decreased the time we spent together with them physically or chatting face to face. Living abroad is a disadvantage as we have no choice and telephone/computeres are the one only source that we depend on to updates them on our lives here. From my experience, I feel that I appreaciate my family more in the sense that I realise how much I miss them. Sometimes we never know what is important to us until we feel their absence.
On the other hand, blogging has seem to be addiction to some teenagers and also adults. Regardless on how tired they are after work, they would spend some time ranting about what they did or what they are stressing on with work. We could say it is like a therapy for them when they spill their thoughts and worry in words. As I know, blogs have a function that protects your privacy and you could select who you want to view your blog. Therefore they need not worry if a stranger from elsewhere is stalking on them.
The other issue we discussed about is that blogging has inevitably cause the lack of subject to share when we meet our family or friends face to face for they have already know what happened and the details of it. Also, we believe that speaking and typing has a huge difference in delivering our thoughts to others. Although it seems to be similar but when it is put to action, the difference is there because we believe speaking is harder than typing. If one is so used to typing, they would feel uncomfortable talking with people face to face and we think that it is not beneficial as it might affect our presentation skills in work.
posted by: cyndi
teenagers using messengers in Australia
These are some sense coped in "Teens, tech and getting connected-Technology-smh.com.au"
Notes have been replaced by SMS, teenagers can now call their friends from anywhere with a mobile phone and the only writing they do is in the form of an email or instant message.
Teenagers today have an impressive array of methods for keeping in touch. The most ubiquitous of these is the mobile phone. A business and social tool for most people, it is considered practically a body part by most teenagers - something that's impossible to leave home without.
"Teenagers are embracing language as their own communications tool," Mr Barber says. "They've developed their own language."
Ms Huntley says Generation Y-ers become impatient if they can't get through to someone. "They think 10 minutes is too long to wait for a return text," Ms Huntley says.
A Yahoo! study found that 64 per cent of Australian teenagers use instant messaging at least once a day. And a survey of 4328 Australian internet users by ninemsn last year found that 95 per cent of 12 to 17-year-olds used its MSN Messenger service at least a few times a week.
Ms Huntley says "It's easier to say things on a screen than face to face. It's also easier to offend people online. Chatting on Messenger is the technological equivalent of passing notes around the class."
Chatting on MSN Messenger also ranks highly on Casey's daily agenda. "I have 165 contacts in my Messenger, which includes everyone in my year at school," Casey Mrocki says. "I can be having up to 20 convos (conversations) at once."
Casey spends an hour online every night chatting to his friends, mostly about school, homework and the weekend. Not all of his friends are as chatty, having removed Messenger from their PCs at the start of year 11 to stop the constant interruptions and focus on their studies.
While he doesn't blog, Casey says some of his classmates use it to get photos online quickly. "We can go to a party one night and the next day someone will have uploaded all the photos onto their blog."
Reference: June 1, 2006 Teens, tech and getting connected-Technology-smh.com.au, http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/teens-tech-and-getting-connected/2006/05/31/1148956356779.html
Posed by Henry
Notes have been replaced by SMS, teenagers can now call their friends from anywhere with a mobile phone and the only writing they do is in the form of an email or instant message.
Teenagers today have an impressive array of methods for keeping in touch. The most ubiquitous of these is the mobile phone. A business and social tool for most people, it is considered practically a body part by most teenagers - something that's impossible to leave home without.
"Teenagers are embracing language as their own communications tool," Mr Barber says. "They've developed their own language."
Ms Huntley says Generation Y-ers become impatient if they can't get through to someone. "They think 10 minutes is too long to wait for a return text," Ms Huntley says.
A Yahoo! study found that 64 per cent of Australian teenagers use instant messaging at least once a day. And a survey of 4328 Australian internet users by ninemsn last year found that 95 per cent of 12 to 17-year-olds used its MSN Messenger service at least a few times a week.
Ms Huntley says "It's easier to say things on a screen than face to face. It's also easier to offend people online. Chatting on Messenger is the technological equivalent of passing notes around the class."
Chatting on MSN Messenger also ranks highly on Casey's daily agenda. "I have 165 contacts in my Messenger, which includes everyone in my year at school," Casey Mrocki says. "I can be having up to 20 convos (conversations) at once."
Casey spends an hour online every night chatting to his friends, mostly about school, homework and the weekend. Not all of his friends are as chatty, having removed Messenger from their PCs at the start of year 11 to stop the constant interruptions and focus on their studies.
While he doesn't blog, Casey says some of his classmates use it to get photos online quickly. "We can go to a party one night and the next day someone will have uploaded all the photos onto their blog."
Reference: June 1, 2006 Teens, tech and getting connected-Technology-smh.com.au, http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/teens-tech-and-getting-connected/2006/05/31/1148956356779.html
Posed by Henry
Experiment about communication block.
I experimented by my self about how do I feeling while I talk with my friends by blog, my personal homepage and messenger without any talking with my housemate for 2days.
I realised that I did talk with housemate for a just 20minutes in first day the experiment while I communicate with friends through the communication programs.
And I did not talk with housemate in the last day of the experiment. Because my housemates are also spent time to surfing Internet, communicate with their friends by messenger.--;;
posted by Judy (JIN JU, LEE)
mixi
'mixi' is like a blog but it has several different features and many Japanese have their account for mixi.
Here is some information about mixi(from Wikipedia).
mixi, Inc. (ミクシィ Mikushi) is one of several SNS (social networking service) sites in Japan. The focus of mixi is "community entertainment", that is, meeting new people by way of common interests. Users can send and receive messages, write in a diary, read and comment on others' diaries, organize and join communities and invite their friends.
Started in February 2004, there are more than 5.7 million members and 490,000 communities as of November 2006.
* A community is a place for people to share their opinions through an online forum and a way to express tastes and hobbies.
* A footprint (ashiato) is a function that allows a user to see who has visited their page.
* mixi is an invitation-only service, meaning that one can only join via an invitation from a current member of the service. However, once invited, membership is free and open to anyone over 18.
* The word mixi is a combination of mix and I, referring to the idea that the user, "I", "mixes" with other users through the service.
* "Mixi Station", a client program that detects songs being played in iTunes and Windows Media Player and uploads them automatically to a communally accessible list in the "Music" section, was implemented late in June 2006. By July 2006, support for winamp was implemented via a winamp plugin, which was quickly made official by Mixi.
* mixi heavily adopts the use of open source and several hundred MySQL servers.
* "Mixi tsukare", a psychological state of a Japanese youth experiencing a sense of tiring from using Mixi and voicing a desire to discontinue using Mixi and finally deciding to terminate the Mixi account.
I also use mixi and most of all my friends use mixi. These days, SNS like mixi is more popular than blogs in Japan. In the diary page, users can make a link to their blogs if they have one. It is considered that the SNS has better security system since we have to register our detailed personal information. Some users make new friends via mixi after reading their profiles.
posted by Misa
Here is some information about mixi(from Wikipedia).
mixi, Inc. (ミクシィ Mikushi) is one of several SNS (social networking service) sites in Japan. The focus of mixi is "community entertainment", that is, meeting new people by way of common interests. Users can send and receive messages, write in a diary, read and comment on others' diaries, organize and join communities and invite their friends.
Started in February 2004, there are more than 5.7 million members and 490,000 communities as of November 2006.
* A community is a place for people to share their opinions through an online forum and a way to express tastes and hobbies.
* A footprint (ashiato) is a function that allows a user to see who has visited their page.
* mixi is an invitation-only service, meaning that one can only join via an invitation from a current member of the service. However, once invited, membership is free and open to anyone over 18.
* The word mixi is a combination of mix and I, referring to the idea that the user, "I", "mixes" with other users through the service.
* "Mixi Station", a client program that detects songs being played in iTunes and Windows Media Player and uploads them automatically to a communally accessible list in the "Music" section, was implemented late in June 2006. By July 2006, support for winamp was implemented via a winamp plugin, which was quickly made official by Mixi.
* mixi heavily adopts the use of open source and several hundred MySQL servers.
* "Mixi tsukare", a psychological state of a Japanese youth experiencing a sense of tiring from using Mixi and voicing a desire to discontinue using Mixi and finally deciding to terminate the Mixi account.
I also use mixi and most of all my friends use mixi. These days, SNS like mixi is more popular than blogs in Japan. In the diary page, users can make a link to their blogs if they have one. It is considered that the SNS has better security system since we have to register our detailed personal information. Some users make new friends via mixi after reading their profiles.
posted by Misa
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