Things from your childhood that's today youth wouldn't know?

[ReganAndCarter]

What, married to each other?

I think we're expecting too much now.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Don't get me wrong, tech brings with it a lot of advantages to young and old alike and on balance most of us wouldn't want to be without it. And I don't doubt if we'd had all this tech when I was young, I'd have been as guilty as anyone else for wanting to play on a games console for hours rather than dossing about on my bike.

The problem with tech is that it tends to take over your life. It may have the ability to save you time, make life easier, better informed - but then you just seek to be even better informed. The more tech you get, the more you want. When working and inundated with phone calls, I would at times seek out areas to relax, where the phone signal didn't get through, just to get some peace from the phones ring.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

The problem with tech is that it tends to take over your life. It may have the ability to save you time, make life easier, better informed - but then you just seek to be even better informed. The more tech you get, the more you want. When working and inundated with phone calls, I would at times seek out areas to relax, where the phone signal didn't get through, just to get some peace from the phones ring.

I think some folk nowadays do a 'tech detox' where they switch off their smartphone for a weekend or whatever. Have read a few articles from folk (ordinary and famous) who've stopped using social media (sometimes completely) and say how better they feel for doing so.

I think what we (pre tech folk) can't fully get our heads around is how connected younger generations are to their tech. It would be like losing a limb for many of them to do without it, even when it's adversely affecting them e.g. being bullied online.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I think some folk nowadays do a 'tech detox' where they switch off their smartphone for a weekend or whatever. Have read a few articles from folk (ordinary and famous) who've stopped using social media (sometimes completely) and say how better they feel for doing so.

I don't do social media in the usual sense, email, newsgroups and websites like this are all I 'do', with an occasional dip into Fb when I have a special reason to do so. I don't even normally use WhatsApp, except it seems to be be the only thing my gf seems able to use for messaging. She just messages me during her breaks at work, to keep in vaguelly in touch.

I think what we (pre tech folk) can't fully get our heads around is how connected younger generations are to their tech. It would be like losing a limb for many of them to do without it, even when it's adversely affecting them e.g. being bullied online.

Yep, it seems no matter what they are doing, they simply cannot put the phone down for a second. Even when out and about walking, they have the phone on and always chatting to someone - completely oblivious of the world around them, like zombies.

I always envisioned tech giving us more free time, but it does seem to have swung the other way, with the tech occupying ALL of the leisure time it has created.