Do you think that social media is changing what it means to be a teenager?JS: Yes, I have to be qualified, though, because I’m not a teenager now myself and I don’t really do social media. My standard answer to this is a more general one, which has to do with the fact that I don’t judge teenagers because I think that each generation has their own task and their own time. So the task of my generation – I was born in 1953, so I was a teenager throughout the ’60s and the ’70s – our task was to deal with the Second World War. I was one of the baby boomers after the Second World War.[Jon Savage, Matt Wolf, Jason Schwartzman via]Your task is very different. You have to deal with a world in which there’s a very bad recession, and there’s a lot happening. So that’s what you have to deal with. I do think it is changing, though, and sometimes I don’t think in a good way because of the bullying that goes on. Which I hate. One of the problems I do have with the Internet is the idea of anonymity and people saying horrible things. I really don’t like that.
[Jon Savage, Matt Wolf, Jason Schwartzman via]
Your task is very different. You have to deal with a world in which there’s a very bad recession, and there’s a lot happening. So that’s what you have to deal with. I do think it is changing, though, and sometimes I don’t think in a good way because of the bullying that goes on. Which I hate. One of the problems I do have with the Internet is the idea of anonymity and people saying horrible things. I really don’t like that.
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