> downloading huge quantities of textbooks and the like onto my phone at the age of 14 or 15 I also used the internet to get interesting tech manuals (and plen

> downloading huge quantities of textbooks and the like onto my phone at the age of 14 or 15 I also used the internet to get interesting tech manuals (and plenty of other books) from IRC channels when I was young But that was before social media, which has IMO destroyed (not entirely, but largely) the positive aspects of internet connections for teenagers A phone is now primarily a source of always-on entertainment (in 10 second bytes).