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Social Media gives Youth a Voice

February 1, 2010 by Sarah Newton  
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The Youth in the UK are rising up and you better start listening!

As the millennials get older and start to use social media in a different way other than to just connect, we have seen a few things happen recently which, for all the skeptics out there, show that social media does have a place and is giving young people a voice they never had before.

15 year old Tess Chapin

Firstly, there was the story of 15-year-old Tess Chapin of Sunnyside, Queens (New York) starting a campaign on Facebook to convince her parents to remove her punishment. Yet again the adults got involved and turned this into a very public and vicious debate. And while you may or may not agree with what she did, you have to admire the ingenuity of it all.

But that’s America, it could never happen here, right? Wrong!

Youth speak out about A-Level Results

It looks as if youth in this country have gone one step further, as more than 3,000 A-level students have signed up for an unprecedented Facebook campaign to protest about their biology exam.

The Independent reports…

They claimed the paper set by the AQA exam board failed to test what they learnt as part of their syllabus.

Hundreds have posted comments, calling the paper a “disgrace” and “ridiculous” and asking to be able to sit another paper as a retake.

And it looks as if it worked, with the examination board saying that they would take their comments into account in the marking. Something which I fear will not quell the masses.

I think this is a taste of things to come and the voice of the youth will get louder and louder; you had better be listening!

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    February 2, 2010 at 8:42 am

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