Blog on Social Citizenship

This article was interesting but repetitive in some of the points that were trying to be proved. Social citizenship is defined as people who "are energetic and passionate about social causes; brimming with new approaches and ideas for problem-solving; disposed toward sharing the responsibilities and rewards of affecting change in the world; and equipped with the digital tools and people power to make it happen". In the paper it is said that our generation the Millennial are more social citizenship. I do agree with the article that our generation is a lot more technologically advanced compared to previous generations. We do use the internet and use the web to protest certain events that we do not agree with. I myself get several cause event invitations on facebook and some of them seem interesting but I usually click the ignore button because I actually do not want to get contacted by the group and get myself into something I thought was interesting for that particular moment. I think one reason older generations look at our generation, sometime referred to the "Q generation" as Thomas Friedman wrote in The New York Times, as quiet and inactive is because everything we do is either on a phone or a computer, we are not old fashioned like our parents or their parents. To some this might seem lazy but you can reach more people through mass emails, mass text, or a good example social networks like facebook. Something interesting I read in the article was that some scholars feel that behavioral patterns begin to repeat every three generations and we are compared according to the article the greatest generation of World War II. This makes me wonder if they are saying history is bound to repeat itself if our characteristics are the same, so what does the next generation bring forth?