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<p>[QUOTE="Seattlite86, post: 3621981, member: 59737"]I also found your comment demeaning. Do I need a reality check too? Is your claim the only reality? I ride the train often. I’m in my 30s and I use my phone on the train to either read the news or look at CT. I consider CT social media, but otherwise, I don’t keep any social media on my phone because I find it an unnecessary distraction. So actually, I am looking at coins. I’ve never bought Nike shoes, and the only shoes I’ve spent more than $100 on were army boots. You know what I see on the train? Parents staring at their phones, delegating their parental responsibilities to the headphones their teenagers wear while sitting next to them, and continue to wear at the dinner table, ignoring their parents.</p><p><br /></p><p>Does my reality reflect the whole of society? Probably not, but neither does yours.</p><p><br /></p><p>Why do we assume that someone with a phone is looking at Twitter, but someone holding a book is reading something of value? Why do we assume that our next generation is the worst and have “lost it”? Probably because we are socialized to think that.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are more distractions than there have ever been, but somehow we’ve found a way to delegate the responsibility and blame of that shift to the people who, before they could even walk, were handed technology by their parents to keep them quiet.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let’s all try to spend less time bashing (on technology, most ironically) the generation we are passing the torch on to and spend more time engaging with them and shaping them. I’d hate to think how many folks have read these types of threads and decided to exit CT due to the close-mindedness of folks who fail to see the continuous cycle of generational Dunning-Kruger.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: looks like a resurrected thread. I thought this was starting up again.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Seattlite86, post: 3621981, member: 59737"]I also found your comment demeaning. Do I need a reality check too? Is your claim the only reality? I ride the train often. I’m in my 30s and I use my phone on the train to either read the news or look at CT. I consider CT social media, but otherwise, I don’t keep any social media on my phone because I find it an unnecessary distraction. So actually, I am looking at coins. I’ve never bought Nike shoes, and the only shoes I’ve spent more than $100 on were army boots. You know what I see on the train? Parents staring at their phones, delegating their parental responsibilities to the headphones their teenagers wear while sitting next to them, and continue to wear at the dinner table, ignoring their parents. Does my reality reflect the whole of society? Probably not, but neither does yours. Why do we assume that someone with a phone is looking at Twitter, but someone holding a book is reading something of value? Why do we assume that our next generation is the worst and have “lost it”? Probably because we are socialized to think that. There are more distractions than there have ever been, but somehow we’ve found a way to delegate the responsibility and blame of that shift to the people who, before they could even walk, were handed technology by their parents to keep them quiet. Let’s all try to spend less time bashing (on technology, most ironically) the generation we are passing the torch on to and spend more time engaging with them and shaping them. I’d hate to think how many folks have read these types of threads and decided to exit CT due to the close-mindedness of folks who fail to see the continuous cycle of generational Dunning-Kruger. Edit: looks like a resurrected thread. I thought this was starting up again.[/QUOTE]
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