Frankly speaking, I’m not a typical teenager just like my fellow friends or peers. In today’s advanced world, teenagers tend to use the computer for hours everyday. For example, they would usually head to Facebook to connect and interact with their friends by posting updates, photos and even videos. Besides spending a huge portion of their time on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, some of which share their daily lives, thoughts and opinions towards a particular issue on their personal blogs mainly powered by Google’s Blogger. MSN is also another popular hangout whereby students communicate with their friends or pals in real-time without forking a single cent to pay for expensive phone bills. (of course electricity does plays a part too) I may be a tech geek but unfortunately, I’m personally think that I’m not a typical tech-savvy teenager. Why? Below, I’ve listed some reasons why…
1. I Don’t Play Computer/Online Games
From my observation, most young tech geeks like my fellow co-editors on TechXav aren’t involved in any computer or Internet games at all. Of course, there are still some exceptions like Reuben, who is an avid and professional gamer. The obvious reason is because I’ve no time and I’m not interested to play any sort of games be it a round of Counter Strike Condition Zero or a virtual football match. To be honest, I’ve played computer games before. Unfortunately or even fortunately (or else I would get addicted), I don’t have any affinity with games of all genres and this results in me always losing to others. Gradually, I felt bored with it and quit soon after.
I felt being like an outcast whenever I walk past a class of students playing DOTA or WOW on their Macbooks or my friends asking me whether I play Restaurant City or Mafia Wars on Facebook or not. It’s quite embarrassing though. Typically, about 80% of teenagers in developed countries are hooked up to online and desktop games, including video game consoles such as Xbox, Nintendo Wii and Playstation for at least 2 hours a week. Well, as for me, I’m not part of this upward trend.
2. I Don’t Blog About Personal Stuff
I do own a personal blog which is powered by WordPress.org but the frequency of my postings has dropped tremendously as time goes by. Again, I don’t have much time to share my personal life as a student. What’s more is that no one is interested in reading about my boring lifestyle. Some of my friends or ‘passersby’ do yawn after just reading a few sentences of my post. Recently, I’ve made a blog design revamp and deleted all my previous articles filled with rants. Despite having the motivation and passion to start all over again, but to no avail, I only update just a few articles for the past 2 weeks and there are all about tech stuff. Of course, I would rather focus my energy and time on TechXav which attracts thousands of tech-savvy readers around the world everyday.
I’m quite different from my friends and classmates. Nonetheless, most of them own personal blogs that are filled with exciting content accompanied by some rich multimedia such as beautiful photos and interesting videos. So am I a typical tech-savvy teenager? Well, obviously the answer is NO!
3. I Don’t Use YouTube
Even though it may be the 3rd most popular websites in the world according to Alexa, however, I rarely ‘touch’ the video sharing platform. I’m serious. I personally find YouTube very boring and nothing special despite the fact that it’s a video and music haven to almost all teenagers. It’s rather common for kids and teenagers to put on their headphones and listen to popular English hits or Chinese pop songs on the site. As for videos, they love watching other people’s funny videos, and it is a way to see bizarre, different and unique things beyond their everyday experience.
Conclusion
After reading the above article and the reasons why I’m not a typical tech-savvy teenager, I’m pretty sure most of you might be utterly shocked. You may think that I’m a little weirdo from Mars but I’m still trying very hard to keep up with the trend. For example, currently I’ve an active Facebook account and the small blue MSN icon located on my Windows Taskbar has been always there whenever I switch on the computer.