Here comes the YouTube generation

I’ve been browsing through YouTube right now and stumbled upon a guy’s “challenge“: Look up to the ceiling, close your eyes and stand on one foot for 15 seconds. It’s not that hard to do if you got a sense of balance. After trying for myself I started to look through the video responses. And that’s where things get … well … weird.

There’s about 15 or so video responses, and almost all of them are done by ~10ish year old boys who have a webcam set up in their room. Just let that settle for a minute. When I was ten, and that was only some crispy 15 years ago, we went outside to play. Ride our bikes, play soccer, go camping or swimming. On a rainy day we called some friends and played video games, watched tv or so.

But those little guys there sit at home, browse youtube and then communicate with a general public through self-created digital media. That’s a lot to deal with, don’t you think? They reply to a guy who’s recording his videos in Japan. Other people in turn watch their videos and write comments. Most of these boys have a lot of such response-videos in their channels.

Is this a good thing? A bad thing? Heck, I have no idea. I just know that it’s very, very different to how I grew up. And that this future generation will be frickin’ good with all the computer and digital self-created media thingy.

No judgements here, that kind of stuff just makes me think.