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To think we're going to have a generation of adults unable to socialise?

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Ezlo · 19/01/2025 09:46

By that I mean in restaurants. I see so many kids glued to their iPods in restaurants, barely uttering a word to the rest of their family. The future unsettles me.

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Ezlo · 19/01/2025 09:51

bozzabollix · 19/01/2025 09:48

My 16 year old son believes this. Thinks devices are to blame and he needs to reignite the nineties rave movement so they can all have a great time again - one rule, phones handed in at the start.

I hope he does it!

Oh definitely.

People are so rude with their tech in public anyway. Playing it so loud. Your son is right. Everyone looked out for each other back then. There were real communities.

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helpfulperson · 19/01/2025 09:50

You only have to see how anti interacting with other people people on here are.

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Ezlo · 19/01/2025 09:49

soupfiend · 19/01/2025 09:47

yes, but its more than that, its seeing children out with their parents walking along or the child in the buggy and the parent glued to their phone, not talking or interacting or just sharing the time in silence with the child

No connection whatsoever

I agree. Or the baby in the pram holding the phone and watching something. I saw this the other day on the bus and the baby must've been no older than 18 months.

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bozzabollix · 19/01/2025 09:48

My 16 year old son believes this. Thinks devices are to blame and he needs to reignite the nineties rave movement so they can all have a great time again - one rule, phones handed in at the start.

I hope he does it!

soupfiend · 19/01/2025 09:47

yes, but its more than that, its seeing children out with their parents walking along or the child in the buggy and the parent glued to their phone, not talking or interacting or just sharing the time in silence with the child

No connection whatsoever