Melody Chang @melodychangblr - Tumblr Blog

Tumblr and I

Before I enrolled into this paper, I’ve never heard of a site called ‘Tumblr’. I know that because I enrolled in this paper called ‘Adolescent Development’, it is inevitable that I get to understand more about what adolescents do nowadays. After I checked Tumblr out regularly, I was immensely shocked.

Those images that made me so uncomfortable included: teenagers exposing their explicit body parts, words that were gloomy and depressing, clips that repeated actions such as slapping someone, shouting at someone, love-making actions, spitting on someone and so on. I couldn’t tell if this content was coming from our classmates or from outside. I couldn’t tell so I couldn’t delete them. All I could do was ignore and endure them.

Therefore, I thought of a strategy, which is I’m going to post something positive, meaningful and evocative. That was the foundation for all my postings. On one hand I posted information according to the curriculum of this paper, on the other I posted videos, photos and news that I thought could bring changes to this world. Especially the news of the subway killer in Taiwan, “It all started from a birthday present”. I’m not sure if anyone saw it, but at least I know that I have played a part in trying to change our dark society. A single spark can start a prairie fire. It is a hard lesson but I hoped at least we learned something from the tragedy.

Melody Chang

This is a touching story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_yVo3YOfqQ

Let us share. Share the beauty of sharing. Enjoy the happiness of sharing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhU5JEd-XRo

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Mixed emotions?

We see these a lot at the adolescence age group. Many fights with peers, boyfriends, girlfriends, parents, siblings end in tears and the change of emotion on a regular basis.

Sometimes when an adolescent’s emotions are running wild you just have to let them be for a while until they calm down and find their purpose again… it only takes a little while but they usually always come around.

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It's so true that for teens it's either like or hate, nothing in between.

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Teenagers who don’t have friends are at risk of loneliness, which if ongoing can be linked with impaired physical and psychological health.

Additionally, loneliness can occur in teenagers when they transition from schools, or from high school to university, particularly if they leave their home town and family to attend tertiary study.

One study showed at the beginning on university, 75% of first year students felt lonely at least sometimes, and more than 40% reported their loneliness as being moderate to severe. Additionally, those who felt lonely had a lower ability to cope with stress, had higher levels of stress-related hormones, and had poorer sleeping habits (Santrock, 2010).

The link below provides further information about the common issue of loneliness in adolescents including the definition of loneliness, signs, misconceptions, why loneliness can occur and solutions.

www.cedu.niu.edu/~shumow/itt/Loneliness.pdf

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Totally agree.

m-adolescentdev-deactivated2014

I am the middle child in my family, but because there is such a large age gap between my older and younger sister that means they don’t hang out much with each other because of the awkward age gap meaning I’m each of their favorites haha but definitely have middle child syndrome when it comes to my parents as its the typical oldest child is their favorite and youngest child is their baby and I’m just in the middle

nate552

I am also a middle child, can totally understand the above picture and more importantly the paragraph. Great way to put it, interesting other people have had similar backgrounds and end up doing a similar subject… :)

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Love the humour in it.

m-adolescentdev-deactivated2014

I am the middle child in my family, but because there is such a large age gap between my older and younger sister that means they don’t hang out much with each other because of the awkward age gap meaning I’m each of their favorites haha but definitely have middle child syndrome when it comes to my parents as its the typical oldest child is their favorite and youngest child is their baby and I’m just in the middle

nate552

I am also a middle child, can totally understand the above picture and more importantly the paragraph. Great way to put it, interesting other people have had similar backgrounds and end up doing a similar subject… :)

#Love the humour in it.

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This funny little Dr Suess cartoon explains how babies are born without making it to graphic. Teaching adolescents about sexual health is very important and knowledge about ones own body is one of the most important parts of development

nate552

I remember reading Dr Suess growing up, this is a great graphic illustration of the example of sexual health, as we all know it is very important for the correct education surrounding this topic

#I like it for it is a good idea to introduce the concept of 'where does baby come from?' to children

He is behind bars now. Not only does he suffer, but also his parents who are hiding from the media. 7 days after he committed this crime, his parents came out in front of the media, knelt down to the ground and begged everyone to forgive them for not being good parents. They shouldn't have given him that first laptop without supervision, they shouldn't bought him all those violent games and most importantly shouldn't have been oblivious to their son's murderous plans.

It all started from a birthday present!!!