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Says this man who's lived 60 years. Don't have to be in prison to notice it's an epidemic.

by JoeAltmaier 2y ago

Symbiote 2y ago
I notice it most when the situation is different to my memories. Earlier this week I took a bus at school ending time. Several children — roughly 8-12 years old — spent their whole journey on their phones.
- conductr 2y ago
  This is sad to me as the school bus was some of the best memories of my childhood. I don’t even know why particularly, but I think after being in cooped up in school all day we just got to act like fools and joke around on the bus. We even did this thing where we’d run as fast as we could to get the back seats of the bus. Having typed all that I realized my kid is in a bus free school, we parents are responsible for transportation, and he’ll never even experience it at all. I’m sure he won’t miss it. Was more of a sign of the times for my era than a necessity for a good childhood but, if you’re on a bus with dozens of peers and all glued to your phones, it does feel like some missed opportunities
  - Symbiote 2y ago
    > we parents are responsible for transportation, and he’ll never even experience it at all. I’m sure he won’t miss it. Taking a normal city bus home from school was wonderful for me. I think it was the first time I had some independence from my overprotective parents. I could "miss" the bus, which gave me 15 minutes to look round the Warhammer shop (or similar) before the next bus. I could more-or-less spontaneously go to a friend's house and phone my parents from there — they wouldn't be left waiting to pick me up from school.
azundo 2y ago
I've recently tried to get into urban sketching and spending any time observing figures in an urban scene makes this immediately obvious. So many people staring at phones everywhere you got. I'm equally guilty but once you start looking it is quite stark.

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Says this man who's lived 60 years. Don't have to be in prison to notice it's an epidemic.

by JoeAltmaier 2y ago

Says this man who's lived 60 years. Don't have to be in prison to notice it's an epidemic.

Symbiote 2y ago
I notice it most when the situation is different to my memories. Earlier this week I took a bus at school ending time. Several children — roughly 8-12 years old — spent their whole journey on their phones.
- conductr 2y ago
  This is sad to me as the school bus was some of the best memories of my childhood. I don’t even know why particularly, but I think after being in cooped up in school all day we just got to act like fools and joke around on the bus. We even did this thing where we’d run as fast as we could to get the back seats of the bus. Having typed all that I realized my kid is in a bus free school, we parents are responsible for transportation, and he’ll never even experience it at all. I’m sure he won’t miss it. Was more of a sign of the times for my era than a necessity for a good childhood but, if you’re on a bus with dozens of peers and all glued to your phones, it does feel like some missed opportunities
  - Symbiote 2y ago
    > we parents are responsible for transportation, and he’ll never even experience it at all. I’m sure he won’t miss it. Taking a normal city bus home from school was wonderful for me. I think it was the first time I had some independence from my overprotective parents. I could "miss" the bus, which gave me 15 minutes to look round the Warhammer shop (or similar) before the next bus. I could more-or-less spontaneously go to a friend's house and phone my parents from there — they wouldn't be left waiting to pick me up from school.
azundo 2y ago
I've recently tried to get into urban sketching and spending any time observing figures in an urban scene makes this immediately obvious. So many people staring at phones everywhere you got. I'm equally guilty but once you start looking it is quite stark.