As a youth leader both at church(I must confess that I have quite a few good kids at church) and outside, I have a few youths on my BB contact and the level of misbehaviour is high(Pls guys, don't delete me, Wale is just trying to help!).
What these guys post on Twitter and Facebook and Instagram and BB and Foursquare is shocking. The level of lewdness is alarming. Now, here's a catch; these boys and girls idolise Rihanna and with her saucy and salacious mode of dancing on stage coupled with her meteoritic rise to fame sunbathing on a yacht off the Caribbean coast with Chris Brown as boyfriend all covered in tattoos points in the direction that we have lost focus and if care is not taken, we run the risk of building a future with broken bricks.
I'm presently dealing with a case(with IB involved) where one of our young female friend "mistakenly" sent a text with her picture(semi-naked) to another female friend(we don't know her) and the entire school got it on their BB and Nokia and Samsung via Whatsapp and it trended for hours. She almost Killed herself! We asked her, why did you send your photograph in the first place? She retorted "it's a game thingy( I hate that "thingy" word! Whats thingy?) where we share photographs? I shouted "naked photographs? IB poked me metaphorically with her big eyes!
The issue is, most of these boys and girls can't discuss these issues with their parents so they find "accommodating" older friends and IB and I have been doing that but my level of tolerance is waning.
I get shocked everyday at what I read and see. What's happening to our society? A society where G-strings are taken as trophies by boys when they have sex with girls? A society where boys sign off girls bra and pants with the phrase "I was here and enjoyed it". A society where boys are integrated into gangs by smoking "skunk? A society where both parents are engrossed in their jobs and not having time for the children? A society where boys aged 10 are used as gun keepers? A society where technology has eaten deep into our moral fabric and kids stay in their room all day on XBox, PSP, iPad and BB? A society where these kids play video games shooting and maiming "opponents"? What are we building?
Here's another shocker; the academic reports are going south! I review a lot of CVs for younger friends who are looking for summer jobs or college placements and I see words like "email addy", "refs" and the most annoying "I chillax with my friends as past time". All these in a formal document with the hope of getting a job? Our present day youths have been pummelled with "technological short hands" where they can't distinguish between the real world and Facebook. I asked one of them to write a short story on the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and I couldn't help but laugh at the grammatical flaws? A 16 year old? What's happening? The entire note was filled with street lingo and gang style innuendo bordering on the ridiculous.
I also listen to the music collection on their phones and ah! Justin Bieber and Chris Brown and Rihanna and Lil' Wayne and because most of the kids are of Nigerian descent, they get hooked on a guy named Damoche(he was shot dead recently at his university). Damoche sang a "hit" called something in the region of "female genitalia as something worthy of eating". These youths see these musicians with the wealth they flaunt as the next big thing thereby pushing education to the back burners. Let me shock you, google the WAEC and NECO results in the last 5 years and let your brain freeze.
I am upset!
What have we done to this next generation?
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