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Hard disagree. My first phone was an iPod Touch in Grade 4, and by Grade 5 I had already jailbroken it with one of my friends. By Grade 6, I built my own comput
by tripdout 3y ago
Hard disagree. My first phone was an iPod Touch in Grade 4, and by Grade 5 I had already jailbroken it with one of my friends. By Grade 6, I built my own computer, got a phone with data, and by Grade 7 was running Linux on my desktop computer, which I used in Grade 8 to compile an Android ROM from source. I'm now an intern for an Android app development company. If I didn't get a phone until Grade 8, not only would I have had way less exposure to technology as a hobby, but I wouldn't have been able to enjoy playing mobile games with friends.
- melony 3y agoCyanogenMod?
- tempestn 3y agoMy kids don't yet have phones, but they do have PCs and access to tablets. I don't think a phone is necessary to get involved with technology.
- wwilim 3y agoAren't you a bit of an outlier though?
- scrollaway 3y agoLet’s make more outliers instead of ignoring them and turning them into casualties.
- hammyhavoc 3y agoNot to discredit anything you said, but people get internships with zero prior experience because they're frequently incentivized to offer them. Your comment isn't making much of a compelling argument other than an n+1 anecdote.
- __turbobrew__ 3y agoLots of geeks were into technology before phones. If you were born 20 years earlier it would have been PCs, 40 years earlier it would have been commodore, 60 years earlier it would have been radio. What got you a job is not your exposure to phones, but your curiosity of how things work. The difference between the aforementioned and phones is the constant connectivity and parasitic engineering designed to make technology as addicting as possible. Will people who grow up with phones as young kids be doomed? No. Will those same people be more likely to have mental health issues? The science say “probably”.