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I was having a laugh with my mother the other week, talking about childhood memories and things. I was a pretty mischievous kid when all is said and done. When

• makeitdouble 4y ago
  > So the joke was, while we as kids used to do that stuff for real, kids nowadays do it all from their phone... They're of course mimicking adults. We're spending tremendous amounts in front of (multiple)screens, and kids tend to get the message. People take it as a wake-up call to reverse the trend, but I'd argue what the vast majority of otherwise intelligent people happen to be doing should be first taken at face value as a natural evolution, and not the butt of a joke. I'm saying that as a kid who saw adults on their computers all day long and kinda fault them for blocking me to use one for so long. I definitely see it as a dumb "kids these days" knee jerk reaction on their part that only built more frustration on both sides over the years.