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.
