I’ve witnessed the tantrums and the way parents deal with this problem. I don’t think I had cable TV til I moved out and got a place with my girlfriend at 19. I did have a computer at home on my late teens with dial up. But it doesn’t shock me that they are discovering what the phones and tablets and the effects on the brain. The kids are all issued tablets in grade school through 12th grade. I think I can remember we had typing class in 7 th grade and I took auto cad in 9 th grade. I was using a computer at my job but it was a older CNC machine until I was able to talk my dad into buying a software program called MasterCam in early 2000’s that you could write the program and send it to the machine. The same thing with CMM coordinate measuring machine to get very accurate measurements and then save them to thumb drive and send them over to the company that I did the work for. I have seen 3 year olds that use the I phone and it’s like they have it pre program in DNA for the computer or videos and games. I had to put myself on a limit on how much time I was spending on the IPad and phone and laptop.
The best words from my childhood; "Go out and play".
Zuckerberg is currently in court for social media charges like this article discusses. This could also affect YouTube as well.
It’s not just kids, it’s adults too. I’ve been writing about this recently. Here are some pieces if anyone’s interested:
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-social-media-panopticon
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-case-on-addiction
I see 6 mos old babies in the grocery store, staring at a video on a phone. Cringe every time. Parents don’t know the downside to devices.
I’ve witnessed the tantrums and the way parents deal with this problem. I don’t think I had cable TV til I moved out and got a place with my girlfriend at 19. I did have a computer at home on my late teens with dial up. But it doesn’t shock me that they are discovering what the phones and tablets and the effects on the brain. The kids are all issued tablets in grade school through 12th grade. I think I can remember we had typing class in 7 th grade and I took auto cad in 9 th grade. I was using a computer at my job but it was a older CNC machine until I was able to talk my dad into buying a software program called MasterCam in early 2000’s that you could write the program and send it to the machine. The same thing with CMM coordinate measuring machine to get very accurate measurements and then save them to thumb drive and send them over to the company that I did the work for. I have seen 3 year olds that use the I phone and it’s like they have it pre program in DNA for the computer or videos and games. I had to put myself on a limit on how much time I was spending on the IPad and phone and laptop.