[plug] Binary Clock

[Shayne O'Neill]

Ok. Another way to put this is that whether we notice it or not we do
infact find ourselves as adults following certain social 'codes' that we
learn from interaction. Just things like not eating with the hands at a
family dinner or putting the pants on back to front etc....

Kids have there own little social codes, and these are just as important
to them as ours are to us. Television *does* teach kids these things,
although I agree its probably better for a kid to learn them by actually
interacting.

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On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Cameron Patrick wrote:

> Shayne O'Neill wrote:
>
> | It *can* be handy for (for instance) letting kids know whats currenly
> | in vogue with other kids etc. (Ie knowing whats the latest pokemon
> | type game or what hi-5 are up to etc).
>
> Um.  On the one hand, I would've thought that actually interacting with
> other, real people would be much better for this purpose (as you
> suggested later), and on the other, such pointless trends really tend to
> annoy me.  But then, I suppose I'm just odd in that doing what other
> people are doing simply because other people are doing them (especially
> when, in turn, it was due to some advert on the telly) generally has
> little appeal to me.  Not sure how much this was still the case when I
> was a kid though...
>
> Cameron.
>
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