Today I want to write about the interests of young people. Being a student myself and considering myself a young person, I am curious in my peers’ interests. For some reason now I am concerned about this much more than ever before, especially when I start to think about how the interests of one person could change during the life.
When I was a kid I was enjoying being outside all day long spending time with my friends in a school yard. We had so many games to play, involving running around, jumping, dancing, singing and much much more! If we ran out of games, we  created  new ones, our own special games. Looking back at those times I could definitely say that we had a great time together and I probably had the happiest childhood.
Nowadays when the technological progress is so fast modern kids spend most of their time with their digital toys and online friends rather than real once. This young generation is less interested in physical communication with their peers, they would rather spend another hour playing games online. On one hand it’s great, that youth have an access to such kind of technology and, moreover, that they are such experts in such technologies since young age. On the other hand they are missing their childhood declining lots of different things in return to virtual reality. However, I think that this is an issue not only for children and teenagers but also for my generation. Moving to an online world we forfeit ourselves from physical conversations and discussions, taking hundreds of pictures every week (or maybe every day for some individuals) we lose their value and forfeit ourselves from valuable memories.
In such fast moving world we read less and less for pleasure and more for specific subject, we spend less time for books and more time for magazines, journals and articles… On the other hand, online world gives us connection to a variety of friends with whom we can’t meet in person because of long distance and different time zones. Digital world gives us a chance to become experts in areas of our interests, introducing to us to overwhelming information which we need to choose from.
By the way, I think this ability to choose valuable information helps developing our analytical skills. Curiously enough, new era of communications gives us opportunities to create our physical meeting with friends much more interesting than ever before as there is such a great choice of activities you can find out about on the Internet. So my point is, even if sometimes I feel sorry for myself that my peers and I spend most of our times online, I still enjoy being online. And what I like the most about online, is that I can share my thoughts with lots of curious people just like myself.
This blog is written by Olga Makiievska MA Marketing Communications student
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