We are in a generation that is continuously getting faster and being able to share and store more and more information.
With applications like Twitter, YouTube and Facebook, it is just extremely easy these days for kids to find any information and share it with their friends. With that, you have kids following their favorite athletes, musicians, artists, actors, actresses and many more. They see everything they are following and they go and share it with their friends too.
The problem with their parents trying to control what their kids see and how it affects them is that they really cannot control it these days. If their kids want to dress and talk like Iggy, there is not very much they can do besides maybe send them to military school or joining an Amish country.
I do not think you can really blame the celebrities for this because they are just trying to live their lives. They did not ask for kids to follow exactly what they are doing.
However, I do believe that now they should understand that kids want to do what is cool and they think celebrities are the coolest you can get. That is the goal in life: to
live easy like a celebrity. Everyone wants to be rich and famous. I still believe that the celebrities should either watch what they are saying because they are constantly being video taped and recorded, or they can actually go out and be good examples for people.
There is a lot of blame on television, video games and music, but every single generation has been saying that. First they blamed jazz, then they blamed rock and now they are blaming rap music.
Generations are always going to change, just like I plan on yelling at my kids about how their new phones and music are rotting their minds.
I believe that when you get older, you do not want to think it was your fault that something went wrong in your kids’ life, so it is easier to just blame the media and celebrities for being bad examples.
I do think that the celebrities and media are part of it, but you cannot just throw the blame on them. Sometimes you have to accept the fact that each generation is going to find its own way.
