Trend: Overloaded Kids Turning Low-Tech - The Diigo Meta page

• 10 Feb 08
  

  Jane Mejdahl

  They are being driven to activities reminiscent of their childhood and more familiar with their parents' generation. Out goes MySpace, PS2s and iPhones, and in comes knitting clubs, craft fairs and cloud appreciation societies.

  technology teenagers via:figurations

• 07 Jan 08
  

  Adrien Joly

  technology trends

  • Young people, under pressure to communicate through so many media channels, still crave their gadgets, but also want some low-tech time out and one-dimensional products.
  • Young people's circuits are overloaded. They can't keep on top of their email, surf their Facebook, handle their Second Life avatar and upload their Flickr. They find all this technology that is designed to connect them is in fact disconnecting them. They are actually in multimedia meltdown.
  • There is this need to have a counterbalance to stress and anxiety, and this is an antidote to new tech and new media. Young people are looking at the pastimes from their youth when they didn't live with the same pressures and responsibility.
  • this is not a fight against technology -- youths want to be at the leading edge, but they also need a time for back to basics, where analogue living provides some respite

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