Comments on: One Hundred Young Americans by Michael Franzini

By: Brady

Brady — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 04:01:45 +0000

Von Skippy, I would like to take this time to request that you point your chastizing finger up your anus. I’m one of the 100 (the samurai, hard to miss), and while some have issues that may make them seem like failures, a true failure is one who is so desperate to atone for his failings that he lables others as failures. I would like to add that, while there are a few minor inaccuracies this is a good representation of young americans.

To Jacki: I’ve noticed the same thing. Some older people seem to generalize us. Since I’ve started college, I’ve noticed several stereotyping glares. I’m constantly looked at as if I’m a lesser being because I’m not 40, like I’ll pick-pocket them because I’m 19. Even after I have held the door for them, oh…I must have been plotting something, mwahahaha! All part of my scheme, hold the door, then…forget the even exist, so fiendish, so evil! I just ignore it, some day they’ll be too old to care, and by that time we’ll be fixing the problems they started.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:38:05 +0000

It is what it is, I’d never imagine there were so many different aspects to teenage culture and angst. Boy, did I waste my youth, these kids live much more interesting lives than me.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:42:52 +0000

algonkin, your point is useless here. it’s like OK while we may not all agree upon this young persons lifestyle but this is a review on a project that is put out there about every different type of teenager. in my eyes, the more of a reaction you can get from viewers, the better your project has become and i feel like this artist was crazy successful

By: Mac

Mac — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:06:42 +0000

Please, please, please put your disclaimer at the top and the bottom. I understand about the need for income and I celebrate your ability to find some, but when I read a review that is bought and paid for, I put it in a different part of my brain and it’s very disorienting to find out later.

I’ll be honest and you can take as you will. When I learn you have been paid for the review, there is nothing you can say that will make me see it as other than advertising. It’s just the way my mind works. Sometimes advertising is valuable (I plan to visit this book’s site and I may buy it), but it is always advertising.

By: Pol x

Pol x — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:18:33 +0000

Wow Von Skippy managed to get racially biased twice in one day on perhaps the nicest blogg on the net.

Start the day remonstrating about how it’s “no wonder that we all hate the Muslims”, and end the day with a nugget of hate for the Chinese.

.Try and keep your racially based spite to yourself.

And Despite what the trailer park teen says, he is not a Skin head.

A real skinhead could never be a racist.

By: Jacki

Jacki — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:21:52 +0000

Haha, vonskippy. : )

I’m not denying that kids like that don’t exist somewhere out there. I am a teen myself and I think this kind of stereotypical crap fuels the attitude me and many of my friends receive from grannies (yeah, old ladies…)

One time, we were on a bus going to a park in downtown and so we all sat in the back and we were talking about real nerdy stuff (I’m from an IB school…can’t escape the nerdiness XD) and the granny started spouting off at us. The thing was, the group next to us of an older teen crowd a few feet away were talking about movie porn. =.=

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:50:12 +0000

Neatorama, like many blogs, use sponsored reviews in addition to advertisings to help defray the high cost of hosting and bandwidth.

Reviews are always disclosed. There is no pressure to write only positive things about whatever it we are reviewing.

Unfortunately, until bandwidth is free or we start charging everyone who reads Neatorama, advertising is the only way the blog can survive.

One Hundred Young Americans is a very interesting project by Michael Franzini - even if we didn’t cover this on a sponsored review basis, I’d still highly recommend you guys check out the website.

By: Vonskippy

Vonskippy — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:04:27 +0000

From this sampling, it’s safe to say that America is doomed. People should just start learning Mandarin now.

By: Myron

Myron — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:15:05 +0000

I appreciate the full disclosure, but I’m leery of sponsored reviews. It’s an informercial, paid advertising, but with compensation only for the author and not the website, and camouflaged to look like a regular post. Neatorama would do well to avoid such posts.

By: Angstrom

Angstrom — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:13:38 +0000

re: the widest generation gap .
I was reminded of this article - “Say Everything” about youth today
http://nymag.com/news/features/27341/

By: algonkin

algonkin — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:01:14 +0000

Jon [19, California] He’s pissed off about racial mixing.

That’s why the white race choses not to live in trailers with a Nazi flag on the wall and a shotgun under his bed

By: L.B. Jeffries

L.B. Jeffries — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:34:07 +0000

I like Millenials. Probably because I am one. We may be praise hungry, but since when is someone demanding that a work environment be positive and friendly such an awful thing?

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:02:30 +0000

OK, I just got up and hugged my three teenagers, and remembered one of the reasons why my wife and I decided to homeschool. I ain’t the world’s best dad, but I’m preety sure I’ve got three of the world’s best kids, and there are more like them out there who will never make it into a coffee table book or people magazine…so we will never hear about them.