I read in the Daily Mail today a side bar story on page 33 and to be honest it caught my eye and I fell in love with it. At the start of my People and Politics course our lecturer told us to create a blog and then update it frequently, well my opinion on this was that it was a great idea.
The story was that teenagers prefer blogging to the classic reading list of books to help further their intellectual minds. The poll found that 11-14 year olds pore over celebrity riddles magazines such as Heat and Bliss which base their population on the lifestyle format. The survey was carried out by the National Year of Reading by the social networking site Piczo; this website contains many blogs man made websites by teenagers.
1,340 youngsters who took part in the poll and admitted they had been told off by an adult who taught they were not reading ‘proper’ literature… but I put this question to you; what can be called proper literature nowadays? In the generation we are in now New Media Technologies, online Journalism
There are however some books that the survey should teenagers liked including Happy Potter and The Diary of Anne Frank, the least liked books read by teenagers are anything to do with homework or books with more then 100 pages… but I guess university students and teenagers have something in common, they hate to read pages and pages of black and white words printed on paper. I am very thankful that blogs give a teenager the opportunity to voice their opinions, fears, worries and loves to anyone who is willing to log on and read what they have written. It is the best and only way that helps those students further their speech and intelligence and no other person other then their peers give better criticism.
The Director of the National Tear of Reading insisted: “We should all appreciate that many young people are reading creatively, parents need to accept that their children prefer to read online resources rather then read through a book.” I think he is correct and if any of what has been shown then there is one simple statement…. Isn’t reading still reading, no matter what material it is?
