stonerblue
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Get your lad tech savvy asap or he'll be left behind.
Get your lad tech savvy asap or he'll be left behind.
Scottyboi
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Plenty of time for that mate, being able to play angry birds for 5 hours straight isn't a quality. He plays abit of rocket league on my xbox but he prefers playing with action figures.
stonerblue
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No there isn't Sb. My grandson is 5 and knows his way around his touchscreen tablet. He watches wildlife stuff, planets, dinosaurs etc. His favourite is Attenborough doc's. In a morning before schoo he has ten minutes of cartoons. He signs in school on a touch screen tv, orders his dinner (cheeses butties every day) and helps other kids sign in if they go wrong.
Technology is the future and i think kids should be comfortable using it as soon as possible or they'll get left behind.
Grandson also loves his action heros, running around and generally being a 5 year old kid just like we did.
Scottyboi
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O he does all that, he has a login on my PC and can open up chrome and go on youtube. Uses netflix on the xbox on the morning he has a tablet but they are pretty shit to be fair when you have access to a PC. They use Ipads in his school for education. But I know loads of kids whose lazy arse parents throw the Ipad at them to keep them quiet whilst they hunt for cock on their phones.
Trevor Morley's Tache
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Mobile tech is ruining everybody. Even the people who don't use it are affected by it, because everyone else is too busy staring at their screens.
The art of conversation is dying. Up to 80% of our conversation as a human being is through body language, and intonation, which you simply don't get through a text message (despite the number of poo emoji's or smiley faces you put on it). Younger generations seem to have lost the art of reading body language (and it is an art). They can't read those subtle eyebrow lifts or puzzled expressions. Now you have to explain everything in words because people can't read (real) angry faces; probably the cause of a lot of fights amongst youngsters in bars.
Just as an aside, remember when the was a race to make phones really tiny? Suddenly they started getting bigger again, which coincidently, corresponded to the increase the availability of on-line porn.
The art of conversation is dying. Up to 80% of our conversation as a human being is through body language, and intonation, which you simply don't get through a text message (despite the number of poo emoji's or smiley faces you put on it). Younger generations seem to have lost the art of reading body language (and it is an art). They can't read those subtle eyebrow lifts or puzzled expressions. Now you have to explain everything in words because people can't read (real) angry faces; probably the cause of a lot of fights amongst youngsters in bars.
Just as an aside, remember when the was a race to make phones really tiny? Suddenly they started getting bigger again, which coincidently, corresponded to the increase the availability of on-line porn.
Scottyboi
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Bollocks that is cocaine and beer lol, and men have fought in bars for centuries.
stonerblue
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Good stuff. Yep, too many just see it as a way of shutting the kids up rather than a fantastic educational tool
Scottyboi
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Turns the kids into little shits too!
grunge
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Damn those news papers ruining conversation!
BlueS
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Vic20 ruined my childhood