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Parents want your kids back
Get rid of their smart phone and get them a flip phone.
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I think this is the wrong answer .... phones aren't just phones anymore, and going back to just a phone isn't an option. I think kids being "lost" to phones is to be expected on nothing more than what phones have become.... while their parents don't fully understand it. I remember my first phone, I could call and play snake, thats about it. Currently my phone is more powerful than the laptop that got me through college (only like 7 years ago).
I think the vast majority of social media aspects of the phone are terrible time-sucks and for the most part completely useless, but so much good can be done with the phone too. On an average day my phone helps me in a thousand ways, that have only been around for a few years and I already completely take for granted. Yesterday my wife and I went shopping and to get dinner for her B-day... by like 2:00p my phone was at 40% battery and I couldn't figure out how the hell that happened.... but it does everything.
* 60 minute drive using spotify
* sending directions to my car via google maps
* making a dinner reservation
* price checking every bigger purchase that day while still in the store
* pulling up measurements of our house to make sure furniture fits
* pulling up photos of SKUs for folks at the checkout line
* Paying with my phone
.... its insane. It does everything. I think there are significant downsides to the way kids are being consumed by a phone, and I really think the problem is compounded by parents who DIDN'T grow up with this type of tech.
The baby-boomber vs. millennial battle is crazy to me... Baby boombers **** alllll over millennials, but they're the ones who raised them ... if they're ****ty kids, its their fault. This generation gap is more significant than any before because of the tech. I really think once folks my age (29) start pooping out kids you'll see a much more controlled use of tech in parenting, because for the most part, we know how to use it. I couldn't reasonably expect someone my parents age to do a good job of parenting in the tech world we have today.... when you understand less about a subject than the person you're trying to protect from that subject, you're setup for failure.