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Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
Posted on 8/11/17 at 9:43 pm
Posted on 8/11/17 at 9:43 pm
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One day last summer, around noon, I called Athena, a 13-year-old who lives in Houston, Texas. She answered her phone—she’s had an iPhone since she was 11—sounding as if she’d just woken up. We chatted about her favorite songs and TV shows, and I asked her what she likes to do with her friends. “We go to the mall,” she said. “Do your parents drop you off?,” I asked, recalling my own middle-school days, in the 1980s, when I’d enjoy a few parent-free hours shopping with my friends. “No—I go with my family,” she replied. “We’ll go with my mom and brothers and walk a little behind them. I just have to tell my mom where we’re going. I have to check in every hour or every 30 minutes.”
Those mall trips are infrequent—about once a month. More often, Athena and her friends spend time together on their phones, unchaperoned. Unlike the teens of my generation, who might have spent an evening tying up the family landline with gossip, they talk on Snapchat, the smartphone app that allows users to send pictures and videos that quickly disappear. They make sure to keep up their Snapstreaks, which show how many days in a row they have Snapchatted with each other. Sometimes they save screenshots of particularly ridiculous pictures of friends. “It’s good blackmail,” Athena said. (Because she’s a minor, I’m not using her real name.) She told me she’d spent most of the summer hanging out alone in her room with her phone. That’s just the way her generation is, she said. “We didn’t have a choice to know any life without iPads or iPhones. I think we like our phones more than we like actual people.”
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The more I pored over yearly surveys of teen attitudes and behaviors, and the more I talked with young people like Athena, the clearer it became that theirs is a generation shaped by the smartphone and by the concomitant rise of social media. I call them iGen. Born between 1995 and 2012, members of this generation are growing up with smartphones, have an Instagram account before they start high school, and do not remember a time before the internet. The Millennials grew up with the web as well, but it wasn’t ever-present in their lives, at hand at all times, day and night. iGen’s oldest members were early adolescents when the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, and high-school students when the iPad entered the scene, in 2010. A 2017 survey of more than 5,000 American teens found that three out of four owned an iPhone.
Posted on 8/11/17 at 9:44 pm to Wally Sparks
Facebook definitely exposed the babyboomers for the retards we all knew they were
Posted on 8/11/17 at 9:44 pm to Wally Sparks
No, and nobody is reading that shite.
Posted on 8/11/17 at 9:51 pm to Wally Sparks
Oh........this thread again.
Posted on 8/11/17 at 10:01 pm to wadewilson
Yes!
Sent from my iPhone
Sent from my iPhone
Posted on 8/11/17 at 10:22 pm to Wally Sparks
Didn't read that shite. But smartphones have hurt society, don't blame just one generation. I see people of all ages with their heads buried in their phones
I try to remind myself to get off mine while in public especially
I try to remind myself to get off mine while in public especially
Posted on 8/11/17 at 10:53 pm to Wally Sparks
And public schools doubled down by purchasing iPads en masse using federal grant money.
Posted on 8/11/17 at 11:01 pm to Wally Sparks
quote:Only read this, and the answer is no, we're much, much better off with smartphones.
Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
Posted on 8/11/17 at 11:04 pm to Wally Sparks
I think it's turning people into social dysfunctional.
Posted on 8/11/17 at 11:16 pm to RogerTheShrubber
The only thing its done is highlight how stupid most of the world is and allow them to group together from distance.
Ive taught myself to play guitar, code, gunsmith, taken classes, and learned about different cultures and ideas among many other things. Using a phone or a computer in general.
All of this would have been near impossible a generation ago given most of our limited resources.
Theres a lot of good to be had with the powerful device you carry around.. if youd stop using it to bitch on the internet that is.
Ive taught myself to play guitar, code, gunsmith, taken classes, and learned about different cultures and ideas among many other things. Using a phone or a computer in general.
All of this would have been near impossible a generation ago given most of our limited resources.
Theres a lot of good to be had with the powerful device you carry around.. if youd stop using it to bitch on the internet that is.
Posted on 8/11/17 at 11:27 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Solid grab from Facebook. It proves the Babyboomers comment earlier in the thread.
It's on the internet....it's gotta be true....I'll repost it so I look smart.
Posted on 8/11/17 at 11:29 pm to fightin tigers
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Solid grab from Facebook. It proves the Babyboomers comment earlier in the thread.
It's on the internet....it's gotta be true....I'll repost it so I look smart.
What makes you think that comes from Facebook? You must be guilty of doing what you're claiming to be against?
I found it on Imgur.
Posted on 8/11/17 at 11:31 pm to Capo Losi
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The only thing its done is highlight how stupid most of the world is and allow them to group together from distance.
It's given socially incompetent a greater voice. Or footprint. If you can ignore those it's a happy place
It's also a great source of both information and misinformation.
Posted on 8/11/17 at 11:32 pm to RogerTheShrubber
The source isn't as important as the message.
Posted on 8/11/17 at 11:33 pm to Capo Losi
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Theres a lot of good to be had with the powerful device you carry around..
Do any of you guys actually read?
Access to information was not the point of the article. Social dysfunction was.
Posted on 8/11/17 at 11:35 pm to fightin tigers
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The source isn't as important as the message.
Man, that sounds pseudo intellectual!
Posted on 8/11/17 at 11:36 pm to Evolved Simian
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Social dysfunction was.
Social dysfunction is not the same as socialising in new ways.
Older generations have never understood why newer generations choose to socialize differently.
Posted on 8/11/17 at 11:37 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Man, that sounds pseudo intellectual!
Gotta be better than posting blatant bullshite
- Abraham Lincoln
This post was edited on 8/11/17 at 11:38 pm
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