a sporting event, a mountain range, a wedding, a natural disaster or
any number of other things ...except through the prism of a cell phone camera"....
...The adults are not far behind.....
Posted on 11/13/2018 7:30:59 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
SAN DIEGO (AFP) - San Diego State University psychology professor Jean Twenge sees smartphones and social media as raising an unhappy, compliant "iGen."
QUESTION: What is the iGen?
ANSWER: The iGen is the generation born in 1995 and later, and they're the first generation to spend their entire adolescence in the age of the smartphone. They spend a lot more time online, on social media and playing games, and they spend less time on non-screen activities like reading books, sleeping or seeing their friends in face-to-face interactions.
Those children are growing up more slowly. By the age of 18, they are less likely to have a driver's licence, to work in a paying job, to go out on dates, to drink alcohol or to go out without their parents compared to teens in previous generations.
So iGen's probably the safest generation in history and they like that idea of feeling safe.
Yet, they also have the sense that they are missing out on something. They realize that being on the phone all the time is probably not the best way to live. They don't like it when they're talking to a friend and their friend is looking at their phone.
Many of them have a recognition of the downsides of that type of living as well.
QUESTION: You have researched the behavior and health of millions of teenagers. What have you observed?
ANSWER: Around 2011 and 2012, I started to see more sudden changes to teens, like big increases of teens feeling lonely or left out, or that they could not do anything right, that their life was not useful, which are classic symptoms of depression.
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I feel bad for those that have never known anything but passive entertainment and communication by screen. Just imagine what happens if their phone/internet quits working. I just picture mass insanity as hundreds of millions are forced to deal with the fact that they really have no experience in functioning or even occupying themselves without referring regularly to a screen.
The rise of the 24 hour news cycle and social media via smart phone was a game changer for sure. Can’t picture anyone looking back in 50 years and thinking to themselves that it was this great thing for our culture.
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It’s as if they are under a spell, and they are. It’s all very impersonal and not what humans should be like. Robotic mind control, etc.
And they either ignore another person or seem afraid to interact.
On my walks I notice that the older people, especially seniors like me, love to cheerfully say “Good morning” or even have a short chat.
I see a 90 year old who is in great shape for her age almost every day. She always says something cheerful such as “We have a tailwind today so we can really make good time”. lol
You’re right....it’s not good or healthy.
Ha, good for him.
I went out of state to visit some good friends, a family of 4. We were sitting at dinner out and I was mindful of not using my phone at the table, but one by one they all got on their phones so I just gave up - we ended up looking like some of the pics on this thread despite the fact that we hadn’t seen each other face to face in over a year.
LOL, I would do that in a heartbeat, as long as the left doesn’t shut us down before that!
13 to 18 limit time to 2 hours?
Not unless you are living on a sheep farm in Idaho.
The schools insist on their devices.
“an entire generation of people who have never seen a concert, a sporting event, a mountain range, a wedding, a natural disaster or any number of other things except through the prism of a cell phone camera”
I read some similar thoughts many years ago prior to a trip to Yellowstone. I saw so many people up there stop long enough to take a photo and move on to the next stop. I was amazed. No one gazing and drinking in the views, just snap and go. Then it was cameras, now it’s the cell phone.
The image of the Titanic in a cell phone age is fantastic.
I know...I burst out laughing the first time I saw it, I have no idea who created it!
a sporting event, a mountain range, a wedding, a natural disaster or
any number of other things ...except through the prism of a cell phone camera"....
...The adults are not far behind.....
One day soon technology will control the masses. Thus ‘engagement’ in electronics is the groundwork being built for that.
Great post-—especially about the people missing a great sunset. Incredibly sad.
My pet peeve is people with babies and toddlers looking at their phones-—I just don’t get it.
By the way I DETEST the Citgo sign.
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Well said, and it is very sad. It’s actually an addiction.
I like the Citgo sign (though I dislike Citgo) simply because it is a bright landmark.
Interestingly, there used be a Coca Cola sign that was prominent too, and I recall seeing the remains of that sign sitting in the back of some lot somewhere, a great big huge rusted erector set looking thing, looking for all the world as if it had been dumped there and crushed in place by some giant. Don’t know what happened to that.
I like neon, and big signs like that. I thought for a while I was going to learn how to make neon signs, but...life gets in the way...:)
The wife flew back from a trip and a bunch of college kids were on the plane. The kids all had stuffed animals as though they were still infants.
“If they are glued to their phones who is doing anything interesting enough to care about seeing or reading about on the phone? “
One person lives, 1,000 vicariously “experiences”.
Actually no. They have always been "know-it-all" whippersnappers who are spoiled rotten and have no idea how hard their parents had it. They don't appreciate a damn thing!
And they never get off your lawn!
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