Youth Skim Surface of Life with Constant Social Media Use

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We see it all too often; students walking around head down, with their noses in their smartphones. You hope they’ll accidently bump into a street pole, but more often than not, it’s you they collide with.

It is annoying, yes, but what we need to understand is that that is how this generation stays informed and up-to-date not only with their social lives, but on currents events.

A wonderful term describing them as living a life ‘a mile wide and an inch deep’ is so perfectly put – these youngsters have access to every bit of social media available to them and with this, are able to know ‘just enough’ about a whole lot. Yes, FONK (Fear Of Not Knowing) drives them to constantly check their phones (admit it, you do too…) and in doing so they manage to stay abreast of what’s going on in the world. They get their news on social media and often know of an event before their parents do.

To read more about the youth and social media in Kelsey Munros article, click here.