Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?

The Atlantic ^ | September 2017 | Jeane M. Twenge

[ilovesarah2012]

Me, too. My cellphone is always by me. If I wake during the night and can’t go back to sleep, I go on my phone. I buy things for my granddaughter online. I read the news online. I post pictures of my granddaughter online. I read restaurant reviews online.
I look up medical information online. I order pizza online. Sometimes I even talk on my phone.

[mylife]

Snake!

[ilovesarah2012]

But we can interact with our phones and take them everywhere. People even use them in church. We have our Bibles on our phones. Not the same as radios and TVs.

[pigsmith]

I liked CB radio.

Ditto. Those radios were the 'social media' of the times for us high schoolers. Fun memories!

[texas booster]

Could you imagine all of the blackmail material if everyone had cell phones with cameras back in the disco era?

We had a Valentine's Day banquet at church one year and asked everyone to bring in pictures from their youth. Let's just say that there were a lot of questions whether a person had actually seen their spouse in some of those getups.

[papertyger]

Maybe it might help curtail the reinforcement of kid’s more asinine ideas through peer interaction.

There is NOTHING that gets under my skin worse than a child 1/5 my age puling “you don’t understand.”

I understand perfectly you little bastard. What i don’t do is AGREE!

[mylife]

Good Lord! Polaroids had many a messy ending!

[Cboldt]

I agree the phone/internet is different. My point was that the "social degredation" has been going on for longer than the phones have been around.

And like any tool, it can swing both ways. The jury is out until we are all called home.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I live in a part of NM that has no coverage. Internet is by satellite, and phone landline. All the kids in our neighborhood turned out great, one valedictorian, two to college as engineers, and a West Pointer. I guess they spent too much time playing in the woods and hanging around with the adults learing stuff.

[lightman]

Ping.

[Redcitizen]

Call me Plissken.

[SamAdams76]

Adults whining about the "kids of today" is nothing new under the sun. Back in the 1970s, my parents thought my generation was going to hell in a handbasket on account of rock and roll music, trashy TV shows and all those pinball arcades (that were already transforming into video arcades with PacMan, Space Invaders and Galaxa.

Yeah, I wasted a lot of quarters too!

[mylife]

Yall suppose somewhere somehow kids are doing what has been going on forever?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYoLGS6uzao

[mylife]

Dey order Chicken with an app! LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqyOiizThJ4

[Big Red Badger]

May read later...

The kids Are lost!

[EinNYC]

I know smart phones absolutely destroy any potential for learning in NYC classrooms. Instead of paying the slightest attention to the teacher at all, students are totally occupied texting, watching movies on their phone, surreptitiously recording or photographing the teacher to get them into trouble, photographing their test and texting it to friends across the room, playing music (often very loudly on purpose to rudely disrupt the class), playing phone games, and even putting the phone to their ear and making a call while the teacher is attempting to teach.

It is the certified MORON DeBlASSio who changed the city policy of forbidding cell phones in classrooms, and thereby destroyed anyone's chances of actually learning something during a class.

[EinNYC]

Imagine how they’d react if cell phone jammers were allowed in schools.

Some teachers have purchased jammers and simply didn't let anyone know. There is a limit to entering a classroom every day and being utterly ignored, yet being held responsible for good passing stats.

[MarvinStinson]

“today’s teens are physically safer than teens have ever been.”

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Today’s teens are pickled in drugs.

[MamaB]

I have 2 great granddaughters. They kept taking my daughter's iPad away from her from the time they were about 1 1/2. Finally she got them their own. They could pick their own games, etc. it was funny before they got their own. Each would come to my daughter and say, “puter, Mamie, puter.” Now they are in 3rd and 4th grades. I think they use them in school this year.

[rfp1234]

Has the Jesuit Pope destroyed the Catholic Church?