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Kids should be outside playing and interacting with other kids, not coding and gobbling candy.

by nether 10y ago

jameslk 10y ago
I was one of those kids who stayed glued to a computer indoors and had all my friends online. Now I have a career and friends across the globe to thank for it. Not every person should follow a prescribed path.
- overcast 10y ago
  How often do you socially interact with those global friends, in person? I'm all for learning awesome computer skills, but there is a time to be a child, and a time to be an adult. I wouldn't exchange growing up in the woods with BMX bikes, skateboards, and vine swings with the neighborhood kids. For sitting behind a computer all summer vacation, messaging people on the internet. I now have a career, and friends all over the world as well.
  - jameslk 10y ago
    In person? That's difficult for me since I'm not often able to travel to Finland, the UK, Egypt, etc. I interact with my online friends nearly daily, online. My point was that I would of never have met such diverse people early on had I not grown up around a computer + Internet. Nor would I have necessarily been able to get a job programming right out of high school that helped pay for my college education. I'm not claiming my path was superior in any way, only that there's more than one way through life.
    - overcast 10y ago
      Of course you would have, just like the rest of us have friends all over the world now. I respect your decisions, and I'm glad you're doing well however I'm not going to agree spending your youth indoors was a good choice. There is no argument for what this type of lifestyle is doing to this current generation. They are basically incapable of socially interacting and dating.
      - jameslk 10y ago
        > There is no argument for what this type of lifestyle is doing to this current generation. They are basically incapable of socially interacting and dating. I'm not downvoting you, but it seems this comes off as a sweeping generalization without any support. If you could at least back up your point with some basis for your statement (ie a reference to something), it would probably help to clarify what you're talking about.
  - sotojuan 10y ago
    It's almost as if people can have very different upbringings and lifestyles and still do well in life.

Kids should be outside playing and interacting with other kids, not coding and gobbling candy.

by nether 10y ago

Kids should be outside playing and interacting with other kids, not coding and gobbling candy.

I was one of those kids who stayed glued to a computer indoors and had all my friends online. Now I have a career and friends across the globe to thank for it. Not every person should follow a prescribed path.

overcast 10y ago
How often do you socially interact with those global friends, in person? I'm all for learning awesome computer skills, but there is a time to be a child, and a time to be an adult. I wouldn't exchange growing up in the woods with BMX bikes, skateboards, and vine swings with the neighborhood kids. For sitting behind a computer all summer vacation, messaging people on the internet. I now have a career, and friends all over the world as well.
- jameslk 10y ago
  In person? That's difficult for me since I'm not often able to travel to Finland, the UK, Egypt, etc. I interact with my online friends nearly daily, online. My point was that I would of never have met such diverse people early on had I not grown up around a computer + Internet. Nor would I have necessarily been able to get a job programming right out of high school that helped pay for my college education. I'm not claiming my path was superior in any way, only that there's more than one way through life.
  - overcast 10y ago
    Of course you would have, just like the rest of us have friends all over the world now. I respect your decisions, and I'm glad you're doing well however I'm not going to agree spending your youth indoors was a good choice. There is no argument for what this type of lifestyle is doing to this current generation. They are basically incapable of socially interacting and dating.
    - jameslk 10y ago
      > There is no argument for what this type of lifestyle is doing to this current generation. They are basically incapable of socially interacting and dating. I'm not downvoting you, but it seems this comes off as a sweeping generalization without any support. If you could at least back up your point with some basis for your statement (ie a reference to something), it would probably help to clarify what you're talking about.
- sotojuan 10y ago
  It's almost as if people can have very different upbringings and lifestyles and still do well in life.