Most of the handwringing about tech is the middle-aged projecting their anxieties on their children. It's not necessarily the kids who are threatened by social

Most of the handwringing about tech is the middle-aged projecting their anxieties on their children. It's not necessarily the kids who are threatened by social media. It's them, whole fucking 40 year olds, scrolling on tiktok (wtf!) and feeling queasy about it. Kids these days yeah right. Listen to this kid subtly rubbing it in: > “I still long to have no phone at all,” she said. “My parents are so addicted. My mom got on Twitter, and I’ve seen it tear her apart. But I guess I also like it, because I get to feel a little superior to them.” Anyway, that aside. The article is complete cringe though. NYT really is 95% lifestyle branding and 5% factoids. Also, these kids, I don't know if they realize, but it's always just that little skeevy (not necessarily in a sexual nature, more generically, as-in, unseemly, too familiar, think "cool teacher"), when adults - journalists, artists, ...- worm their way in kids culture, package their growing up for the entertainment of jaded, passe 50 year olds.