[Drew68]

in-depth study about the impact of smartphones on today's youth and the possible correlation with their almost complete disinterest in personal independence. Quite a bit here that I've also observe from working with young adults.

[Cboldt]

Radio and teevee also had and have massive impact on social norms.

[Redcitizen]

Snake Plissken had the right solution.

Escape From LA Ending Scene
End of All Electricity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHUqNCDwQj4

[TChad]

If America ever experiences an EMP attack, a whole lot of people will feel and act like a major part of their brain was disconnected.

[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.

[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.

[MarvinStinson]

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

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Today’s teens are pickled in drugs.

[rfp1234]

Has the Jesuit Pope destroyed the Catholic Church?

[Drew68]

Bump.

In the early 1970s, the photographer Bill Yates shot a series of portraits at the Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink in Tampa, Florida. In one, a shirtless teen stands with a large bottle of peppermint schnapps stuck in the waistband of his jeans. In another, a boy who looks no older than 12 poses with a cigarette in his mouth. The rink was a place where kids could get away from their parents and inhabit a world of their own, a world where they could drink, smoke, and make out in the backs of their cars. In stark black-and-white, the adolescent Boomers gaze at Yates’s camera with the self-confidence born of making your own choices—even if, perhaps especially if, your parents wouldn’t think they were the right ones.

Fifteen years later, during my own teenage years as a member of Generation X, smoking had lost some of its romance, but independence was definitely still in. My friends and I plotted to get our driver’s license as soon as we could, making DMV appointments for the day we turned 16 and using our newfound freedom to escape the confines of our suburban neighborhood. Asked by our parents, “When will you be home?,” we replied, “When do I have to be?”

But the allure of independence, so powerful to previous generations, holds less sway over today’s teens, who are less likely to leave the house without their parents. The shift is stunning: 12th-graders in 2015 were going out less often than eighth-graders did as recently as 2009.

[Old Yeller]

[RightGeek]

That’s some weird stuff. When I was young, we still had a party line. LOL.

[Kommodor]

It’s the perfect substitute for actual human interaction.

[Drew68]

More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis.

Bump

[Yollopoliuhqui]

What the “progressive” social engineers fear most is that phone connected humans are living outside the control apparat of corporate media- more time on the iPhone means less time watching the propaganda masquerading as news and other TV attitude programming. “Progressives” should be celebrating the fact that children are discovering their autonomy earlier and will be less likely to become hypnotized by the collective “hive brain”. “Progressives” should be celebrating the fact that teens are wrenching themselves away from marketing aimed at them. They don’t care as much about appearance- fads are becoming cyber oriented, not commodity purchase oriented. They are becoming a nation of data tracking nerds and I find that to be a positive effect of the “Global Electronic Village” as defined by media theorist Marshal McLuhan. The emotional costs referred to in the article are a passing phase. Keep in mind that this technology is in its infancy, there are no road maps and our current mania for scaring ourselves with technophobia’s dire predictions is not helping us transit into the electronic era and is killing our sense of future with hysteria and panic.

[JimRed]

Unlike the teens of my generation, who might have spent an evening tying up the family landline with gossip, they talk on Snapchat, the smartphone app that allows users to send pictures and videos that quickly disappear.

Off topic a bit, but that line made me think of the teens on the phone bit from "Bye, Bye Birdie", with a luscious Ann-Margaret. Can't help but smile when those thoughts arise!