Children Till 24?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-42732442
So should we raise the voting age to 25 then? The last thing I want is self obsessed twitface junkies effecting who's in the government.

[sp1814]

Eighteen seems about right for the voting age.

Twenty five is silly.

Besides which, why should those who indulge in Twitter or Facebook and not older people who get their news from equally dubious sources?

[ummmm]

My son is 19, works full time and is far more political minded than me and his father put together.

[emmie]

hate to say this, but from what i have seen of nieces, nephews, they are media obsessed. They aren't even teens yet. they seem to have no way to to put down the phone, laptop, tablet, computer once in a while.

[mikey4444]

I agree SP....its very unedifying.

[sp1814]

ummm - exactly.

People who dismiss Millennials out-of-hand are being very closed-minded.

[ToraToraTora]

SP: "I'm getting increasingly concerned that some older people just dismiss the young as snowflakes and Twitter-obsessed morons" - I wonder how they could possibly have formed that opinion! PMSL!

[ummmm]

Emmie...what is the difference from reading news articles on a phone/computer than from a physical newspaper? Except of course technology means access to more information.

[ToraToraTora]

well spathy, I might agree if I ever saw one take their minces off their dog for 10 seconds!

[Mamyalynne]

The young have always stereotyped the older generation and visa versa - the young are oft accused of struggling to string a sentence together without patois and garbled speech and the older generation do it too.

It's not right but it's human behaviour.

There are indeed some youngsters who I would trust with the vote but for now I feel it's OK where it is.

[emmie]

umm
what i meant to say was not so much interested in the news, more obsessed with their phones, tablets, as in twitter, facebook, one nephew is only 9 but spends time on the computer youtubing, he is good at what he does but i worry he's too young, but my brother thinks its ok, so who am i to argue.
the other nephew loves football and any chance he gets he plays, but is also obsessed with video games..

[sp1814]

TTT

Careful now - the young could equally turn around, look at our generation and say:

"Surely you lot were the laziest, most entitled generation the country has ever seen? Looking at the 1970s, it seemed that all you ever did was go on strike, and run the country into the ground whilst smoking Capstan Full Strength, watching the wrestling on 'World of Sport'."

[ummmm]

The younger generation who are not at all interested in politics don't bother to vote.

TTT - speak English!!

[sp1814]

emmie

I don't think it's such a bad thing. It fills up dead time. If people have their noses in their phones on the bus, or tube, they're only staving off boredom.

And previous generations were the same - the amount of media consumed has remained the same - it's just that young people consume media on different hardware. Older people switch on the telly, whereas younger people switch on their tablets or phones.

[ummmm]

Emmie...how do you know what they are looking at on their phones?

[kvalidir]

Absolutely not. I've paid tax for years and I now pay a lot of tax, therefore I consider it my right to be able to vote on what that Tax gets spent on, just like you TTT. Lots of teenagers work and pay tax, not sure what planet you are on tbh.

[sp1814]

spathiphyllum

Dive for cover...quickly

[ummmm]

What is considered old?

[Baldric]

//Achilles heal ///

OMG, and he wants a Vote!