Are mobile phones ruining kids childhoods?

[Magicpole]

No they aren’t. Being allowed to rule the roost, becoming spoiled brats is.

That’s not the kids fault though. That’s parents who don’t know how to be parents and allow their kids to grow up selfish cunts.

That will ruin them. Sort that and everything, including phones will be ok.

 

[Citizen in Pakistan]

I remember playing cricket for hours every day. Basketball n footy in school and that was real entertainment. Even board games like monopoly n scrable were so much fun.
Now adays kids are too busy to do that and concentrate on building fantasy kingdoms, farms and what not. Parents should be strict about how much phone time their child should get every day but its difficult when parents are burried in phones themselves all the time.

 

[BimboBob]

We were talking about this today. I drove past a school playing field and all the kids seemed to be stood in small groups, mostly on their phones. I'm sure I spent most of my time playing football and generally running about trying to look cool.

 

[malg]

I'd suggest that the parents maybe need to take some responsibility.

 

[Southbanken]

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.

How are you accounting for all the fights that happened in bars pre 2005?

I can definitely recognize that there are issues with the over use of phones ect, but in reality, technology isn't the problem, technology is great and allowing us more time and information than we have ever had before. How we are all choosing to make use of it, often in the most mundane / anti social of ways is the main issue.

 

[roj]

At least football stopped us wanking so much...

‘The [football] boom came in the early Victorian era and, as David Winner demonstrates in Those Feet, was rooted in the idea – bizarre as it may seem in hindsight – that the Empire was in decline and that moral turpitude was somehow to blame. Team sports, it was thought, were to be promoted, because they discouraged solipsism, and solipsism allowed masturbation to flourish, and there could be nothing more debilitating than that. The Reverend Edward Thring, headmaster of Uppingham School, for instance, insisted in a sermon that it would lead to ‘early and dishonoured graves’.’
https://www.orionbooks.co.uk/assets...ds/Extracts/Inverting the Pyramid Extract.pdf

But then came online, mobile porn I s’pose.

 

[mscenterh750]

Worst thing both Mrs750 and I ever did was buy my eldest a phone and youngest an ipad for Christmas. Fucking conversation robbing bastard things that they are.

 

[peoffrey]

Damn those news papers ruining conversation!

Would you sit and read the paper whilst socialising with your friends? No.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

How are you accounting for all the fights that happened in bars pre 2005?

I can definitely recognize that there are issues with the over use of phones ect, but in reality, technology isn't the problem, technology is great and allowing us more time and information than we have ever had before. How we are all choosing to make use of it, often in the most mundane / anti social of ways is the main issue.

Maybe not fights in bars, but definitely kids and young adults are pretty crap at reading body language these days. A lot of confrontations would be avoided if people were better at reading body language.

Lets face it, an awful lot of people would be utterly screwed if google ever died. The great smartphone brain drain has seen to that.

 

[basokla]

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.

Agree 100%.