Mar 10, 2009

So after the post on how I believe Design should affect real social changes, I believe that blogging should too.

Although I’m still relatively a “fresh blogger” (and definitely not the most interesting one around), I see blogging as a platform to give voices to those who don’t have any but dying to be heard. Blogging (or writing) is a form to release, a way to make us feel better. But if technology (I’m thinking of social media here) allows, with the resources – why can’t we create real changes and raise awareness ? It’s time for us to get involved.

The question is “Do we care enough?”. Gen Y have always been labeled as too”self-absorbed” or plain “whiny” or the “Gen-WE/Gen-Me“. I guess to a certain extent it’s true, what we blog about is ourselves,our lives, our everyday happenings etc. I (sadly) probably belong to the same category. We sometimes forget that blogging is really more than just ourselves alone. People from the various generation may have valuable perspectives but they are usually different from THE generation itself. For instance, I’m pretty sure the analysis of Gen Y-ers (interesting factsheet on Gen Y) may not be entirely true/inaccurate. So why not let others understand us better via real action instead of just whining about how others view us as ? It may be difficult for us to define ourselves when we’re on the inside but the least we can do is educate,discuss,share ideas, and create changes. I believe that if you write well enough, people do listen.

So to end things off, here’s a bunch of Gen Y-ers who produced a podcast “GennY” (pronounced as Jenny) from the Singaporean Gen Y’s point of view.

I do believe that it just takes alil effort to make ourselves heard (and known, instead of misconceptions of us), so yays to the team behind this. Looking forward to the next podcast (not being biased here), personally I think it’ll be interesting to discuss more on workplace relationships and (maybe) family topics.