Adults don’t want to see their beloved children’s classics messed with. But when they do decide to mess with them, they do so with abandon. I consider this all to be satire, or at the very least irony, so I’m taking it as such.

Except for Disney’s Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars, which they appear to be actually making. This production brings up a logical fallacy that drives me nuts, the assumption that:

  • Kids are ahead of adults in adopting new technologies.
  • Adults all love them some blogging and tweeting.
  • Therefore: Why aren’t the kids on Twitter? Where are their blogs? What the heck is going on? Hurry, somebody do a study!

It’s a mistake to start with the assumption that just because one demographic has adopted a technology that all others will follow. The better assumption is that no group is going to adopt a technology unless it’s a good lifestyle fit.

So, without further ado, my favorites from the folks at Jezebel.

  • margaret48267: are you there god?
  • The Twits
  • The Bridge to Tumblrbithia
  • From The Mixed-Up Tweets Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
  • Wikipedia Brown, Boy E-Tective
  • The /bin/cat in /dev/hat
  • The Little Search Engine That Could
  • Charlie and the Chipset Factory
  • Tales of a Fourth Grade Code Monkey
  • Frog and Toad Are Facebook Friends
  • A Rickroll In Time
  • Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Comments Section
  • The Fantastic Mr. Firefox
  • The Box.net Children
  • The Etsy Bitsy Spider
  • Charlotte’s Web 2.0
  • Hardy Boys: Die Hardyer (ok, so this last one isn’t social media, but I had to include it)
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Drew
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The Jezebel jokes are priceless, but thank you even more for articulating the fallacy so well. Attention entertainment industry: Just because you see a technological trend, doesn’t mean you need to race to capitalize on it with your kiddie audience. “Cool kids tweet, junior!”

Now, the obvious omission: Blog of a Wimpy Kid

March 26th, 2010 at 21:31

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