I pity my future children. Why? Well, because we live in an age where children are given iPads before they are given novels; where digital media is a major educator to children during early development. Having access to the internet and the many avenues of instant gratification that it offers is far too distracting for a young child. I know it would've been for me.
How are teens / young adults in 2025 supposed to date and form meaningful relationships when they've been raised in a world obsessed with Instagram, Snapchat, and Tindr
This is more than a cultural issue, it is also a psychological one. As young brains are developing, their upbringing can greatly dictate their behaviour and personality later in life. The brain circuity that is responsible for gratification is particularly malleable by these powerful distraction devices such as tablets in the early years of childhood. This early development could permanently dictate how a person acts later in life.
My guess: we'll soon be in the age of spoiled, whiny adults. Just wait till the kids born past 2005
Definitely agree with you on this. All the instant gratification is undermining one of humanity's greatest strengths, which is to sacrifice the present for the promise of an improved future; to please the "gods", if you will.
Partial agreement.
The truth is that times are changing and while there are new challenges there also exist new opportunities.
It is sadly true that we exist in a World where its never been easier to get connected - and yet we also exist in a World where its ever harder to reach out to each other. We are a World divided - artificially so - where segments of any demographic live in fear of others. Our division is the symptom.
And yet, is it truly the fault of technology? Or is it perhaps the fault of an ever more outmoded social structure that fails and even refuses to evolve, such that it is left ever more deeply in the dust by the technologies forging ahead?
I'd suggest that the latter is true... and this, to be clear, is the perspective of a person who spent enough time as an introvert. A computer screen was my best friend at the age of six - and this remained true throughout to the end of my teenage years.
There is hope. Society can evolve to harness rather than merely offload technology upon kids. A better harmony between the two will lead to a brighter tomorrow.
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