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ending up stumbling on some fan site full of hand drawn porn.
link?
ending up stumbling on some fan site full of hand drawn porn.
link?
ladyfreckles said:I remember being seven and going on a video game fan website and ending up stumbling on some fan site full of hand drawn porn.
people would constantly post rather obscene things ("You should just kill yourself!" along with other stuff).
You can find this stuff in the comments section on many YouTube videos.
How old of kids are we talking about here?
Interestingly during the Q&A, somebody asked him if there was anything that worried him about the younger generation. And he said that he loves technology - he became a race car driver afterwards, he flies planes, he now only travels first class, he has his iPhone, etc. But that he was quite concerned about the information overload and about the almost instant availability of information where children are concerned. He said he thought that after thousands of years, this was the first generation that would really not understand the concept or importance of human instinct, because they haven't had occasion to. And that he sees a marked difference between kids in the developing world and those in the West. He's not necessarily talking about survival skills (much less needed today where there are very few truly wild places left), but just relying on and trusting your own inborn instinct rather than looking something up on an iPhone. It was an interesting talk - I hadn't really thought about it much before.
Working in IT at a college and having a dozen or so student workers as part of my team, what I see these days are kids that have no ability to troubleshoot or even formulate questions. They have all the tools they need and more in order to solve problems and fix what is broken but are incapable of thinking through the process and want full-timers to spoon-feed them every step of the way. They expect to be trained to follow some step-by-step instructions for every issue they might encounter. It's a big problem for us right now and we've been trying to brainstorm how we're going to address this issue because everything is taking forever to get done (full time staff interrupted every minute by student workers who want someone else to just tell them what to do). Even five, six years ago we did a lot more with a lot less. I'm not sure what this has to do with women since I'm the only woman on my team (and I believe I've been the only woman since the mid-90s or before) and we have only two female student workers that are done working this week (so far I've only seen about six new guys coming through and being introduced as the new hires), but it is what it is. We struggle with helicopter parents being that we support a college and now we're struggling to NOT become a helicopter employer/manager.
There was no creativity applied in education. Pat can go more into detail with this, because he's almost 26 and he has a brother that's currently a senior in high school and two brothers around my age, but he's seen things change just with his siblings alone.
As long as you're not a lazy researcher, it's not difficult to find quality information