Not your parent’s tube
Youtube has been coming up a lot lately at the dinner table (yes, I still have dinner with my parents.). They are all riled up about an article last weekend in the Citizen in which the CBC insinuated that we will have to go to the internet to watch TV in the future. My mom hates watching things on the internet. My dad loved watching movies illegally for a day then got bored. Then there’s me, my ADD is so bad that the only news that I can watch is on youtube. (sorry PMans). My big question is, with the serious advent of the internet, will TV’s become obsolete? That would make my generation very much like our parents’, they grew up with TV as a relatively new thing and had to adapt to it, much to the chagrin of their parents. As a result, we are so on top of everything new: Take this video from CNN about Fred. For the record, I love Fred.
It’s funny because Fred, with seven million views, is unknown by my parents, their friends or even my older coworkers at work. Even the LA times guy David Sarno says “It’s my job to know about what’s going on on youtube and uh I’ve absolutely never heard of Fred at all” And then he also goes on to illustrate his own point, that there’s a cultural split between the generations. “We have never not known a world without internet” So while mommy and daddy are tuning into some annoying HBO special, I’ll be glued to Fred (cause I can only watch 2 minute clips at a time.)
