Writer's Block: Old enough!?!

[rai_ryu]

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13. Because kids younger than that should be GETTING A LIFE rather than wasting all their time on the computer.
Also, before that age, what reason do they really have to be socially networking with people anyway?

Comments

[whreflections.livejournal.com]

If I hadn't gotten into the internet when I was 11-12, it would've been a lot longer(if ever) before I discovered the love of writing I have, as well as how well I fit into fandom. Sometimes, people can find very important parts of their lives and things that affect their life through the internet. It's not just 'wasting time'.

And, they have the same reasons that other people do! I know that my reason was getting into fandom...mostly reading, but also finding other people into the same things I was, etc.

You can't judge whether or not someone has a 'life' based off some arbitrary standards. Their life just might involve different aspects than yours has in your experience, and that's not wrong it's just different.

[rai-ryu.livejournal.com]

I completely agree that there are useful things to do on the internet, but specifically labelling "social networking sites" just makes me think of facebook and myspace. At that age, kids should probably be doing their "social networking" in person with people they actually know.

And don't get me wrong, I was using the internet around the age of 11 as well, but the kinds of activities that go on on "social networking sites" are different from sites that are say, used for art or writing specifically.

Despite what the question asked, I don't really see livejournal AS a social networking site, since it really just seems to me like an online journal (and I've rarely even encountered other people based soley on my livejournal). I'm sure there are a lot of younger people who do constructive things online, which you're right, its not up to me to say whether or not those things count as a "life", but that wasn't really what I was thinking of at the time that I wrote this.