Pinoy Youth

If you have any doubt that companies and even governments are targeting young people in their information and communication campaign, you can set those doubts aside now. Even during the Economic recession in the United States, companies are still themselves how to target the youth and young adults so they could continue making these youngsters spend their money. This is a real lesson for teenagers and for young adults in the United States and in the Philippines. Be wary of advertisements telling you to spend your money. These people want you to enjoy the best they have to offer yet at the expense of you and your parents’ financial stability in these difficult times. So be really critical and careful in spending those hard earned bucks.

Twitter and Young People

Nielsen released a report lately claiming that Teens are not very fond of Twitter, the microblogging and social networking Web platform. This has important implications for those who are reaching out to young people. If young people are in Twitter, then it makes sense for these marketers to expand their presence there. Before the emergence of Twitter, Facebook is a very big thing among young people. Now that Twitter is becoming a big marketing and promotional tool, people just want to know if it’s worth establishing presence via Twitter.

According to the Nielsen report:

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Dang! Two of the websites I have setup are missing. They aren’t working properly. If you check out. http://youngpeople.umcphilippines.org, it says the website is not available. So is http://campusministry.umcphilippines.org. Dang! What is happening?!

These two sites are very important to my work. I am organizing the first ever Campus Ministry Conference of the United Methodist Church in the Philippines. I was telling people to visit the Campus Ministry website so that they will know about the activities, the speakers and other items in the conference. But now it is gone. :-s What am I gonna do? Sigh.

This means hours and hours of working on the site again. Sigh.

Have you noticed the weather? It’s supposed to be summer. Hot. Incredibly hot. But the drizzle and the rain stubbornly try to invade our summer. Global warming I suppose.

Oh well, I gotta work on that now. I’m thinking of a number of projects for youth and young adults moving forward. Stay tuned. There will be a number of intersting updates to the site pretty soon.

Teen pregnancies seem to be becoming prevalent in our society. I’ve been to a number of youth camps and youth training institutes. I usually get invited to speak about the situation of young people in the Philippines and how we should deal with youth.

Teenage pregnancy comes up almost always. It’s a pressing issue, don’t you think?

Let’s forget for a minute about the right attitude towards sexuality and deal with the experiences of our friends, relatives, the friends of our friends, and our schoolmates.

Do you know a teenager who got pregnant out of wedlock?

When I ask this question in youth camps, almost all hands come up. Without having to use statistics and numerical values, we recognize that teen pregnancy is indeed a problem in our society. Our population is now running at 90 million. With teenagers becoming sexually active, we cannot hope to reduce our country’s rate of population growth.

Last Saturday, I encountered an interesting article entitled “Teen pregnancies in the Philippines” from the Philippine Daily Inquirer. This article was written by Dr. Rebecca B. Singson, a strong advocate of female reproductive and women’s health issues.

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