I have been checking out other blogs recently just to see what other people do, say and write about. I am very concerned about the content that can be accessed by just clicking next. Sometimes you get a warning and you get asked if you want to proceed, but not always. A child that knows how to click can see things they shouldn't see, whether they can read or not.
I was also terribly concerned about the language and the anger on some of the younger people's blogs. We live in a time when teens have it better than ever, but they think they have it so bad. There's so much anger and profanity. How did we get here?
Also, I was reading a recent entry on the Feedjit Blog that stated, "younger authors post more: negative content, swear words, angry content, discuss themselves and their own physical state more and post more sexual content and content about school.
More mature authors post more: articles (Words like ‘a’, ‘an’ and ‘the’ referring to an item), prepositions (words like ‘to’, ‘the’ and ‘above’), social processes (words like ‘mate’, ‘talk’, ‘they’ and ‘child’) and they post more inclusive words (‘and’, ‘with’, ‘include’) and words referring to others. They also post more religious words and words indicating positive emotions."
There must be something we can do, but I wouldn't have a clue where to start. I don't think my children talked like that and I hope my granddchildren won't. They know now, at such a young age that certain words are "bad" words. They think "stupid" is a bad word. We have to work on the difference between "bad" words and "not nice" words.
Maybe we aren't praying for them enough or aren't praying for the right things. Maybe we should just pray about what we should do. What happens to future generations is our responsiblity today.
