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The headline is clickbait, but the content is interesting esp. if you have kids/teens "Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?" -- (link)

Posted by MDH (aka MDH) Aug 4 '17, 10:45

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Unless they put out F rays, no. -- nm - Shardik the Baron Aug 4, 11:12
I watched a 20-something mother completely ignore her 2 yo who was completely starved for attention, the other day. - Mel Profit Aug 4, 11:08
The article is basically getting to the point that Andie(?)'s friend is getting at about posting those funny vacation photos - oblique Aug 4, 10:59
No more so than personal computers destroyed the generation before it, and television the generation before that... -- nm - znufrii Aug 4, 10:48 4
- you still did those things with other people though. you talked about games with your friends. you talked about television the day after. - Andie Aug 4, 10:50
- Read the article. -- nm - MDH Aug 4, 10:50 2
  - Like he can read. - Shaun Aug 4, 10:53 1
    - not surprisingly, the article's author has a book out on the 22nd (also in audiobook format for the non-reader :) ) -- nm - oblique Aug 4, 11:04
1970s: Has television destroyed a generation? 1990s: Have videogames destroyed a generation? -- nm - mara Aug 4, 10:47 9
- i don't buy into any of the millennials-are-ruining-everything crap (i actually like their priorities), but i do think being raised post-smart-phone - Andie Aug 4, 10:49 8
  - Certainly a huge shift. The shift from 1950 to 1970 was huge as well, in different ways. The shift from 1970 to 1990 was too. -- nm - mara Aug 4, 10:51 4
    - but in all those eras being social meant human interaction. that is no longer true. -- nm - Andie Aug 4, 10:52 3
      - I notice it *a lot* with my in-laws. - Shaun Aug 4, 10:54
      - specifically "face-to-face". But even as I say that, I have to refine it further. "physical contact" - oblique Aug 4, 10:54
      - I agree, it's a completely different kind of shift. I just don't know that it's more significant. -- nm - mara Aug 4, 10:53
  - I'm mid-article but it is definitely pointing at your IM and specifically about "post-millennials" - oblique Aug 4, 10:50
  - Your IM is what it hits on, not that millenials are destroying things. More so that they interact in ways we never have before. -- nm - MDH Aug 4, 10:50 1
    - I find the conclusions about being left out quite fascinating. It is a kind of real-time middle finger - oblique Aug 4, 11:07

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