Subj : Re: BBS People
To   : ryan
From : paulie420
Date : Mon Feb 08 2021 05:30 pm

 ry>  pa> I think
 ry>  pa> that CELL PHONES, FaceBook, Instagram, TikTok, etc etc etc are much m
 ry>  pa> damaging that this pandemic has been, on our children.
 ry> 
 ry> Perhaps you're onto something here, but it's also like being mad at the
 ry> water for being wet. We can't retrograde technology just to make
 ry> childhoods better. This is just the new normal. And not for nothin', but
 ry> your post has a bit of that age-suppressing-youth thing that happens to
 ry> every generation where the folks of parenting age grouse about what the
 ry> kids are up to these days.

So... I can agree with the ending idea, that we'll always 'hate those damn 
black leather jackets' - but its hard to see a point to be made that the social 
medias, and that entire ball of wax isn't a gross negligence of both our jobs 
as parents - AND what should be our jobs as technologists. What I mean is... 
well, maybe I should state that - I completely agree that 'technology' is great 
for out society, even our children.. this is the first generation that has the 
world in their pockets, but I'm much more speaking about the socials than the 
hardware. 

And those socials man, *IMO* its like undeniable that our kids are getting 
dulled down to the world, sold a way of life that just - isn't real and its 
taking up vast majorities of their normal childhoods; kids are supposed to have 
real, genuine relationships - of all sorts... and in this day and age, they 
simply DON'T. 

Tik-Tok, Facebook, Instagrams, Whatapps, Signals to hide the BFs from mom, etc 
etc etc - My son had pot in PDX before he got off the airplane. He's 16. Rah 
technology... I live in a tiny town 30 miles north of PDX - he had that good 
good waiting for him @ the park next to my house... 

My daughter, who's 10 and I'm aware that WE should parent to this end and make 
sure she isn't - but I dunno if you have a 10 year old; it ain't flipping 
happening. (Not you having a 10 year old, but being able to control this 
marraige to unhealthy tech that start at age... 0.) 

I do hear ya, Ryan. And I love technology... but really, we sold out to the 
highest bidder and its only about the benjammins... it is NOT about bettering 
society.

And neither was 'punk rock'... so. I hear ya. This is a big one, tho.... right; 
so was gay rights. Touche.



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