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⌈ Secret Post #6394 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

This is a weird blanket statement. I'm not a big fan of most zoomers, but none of the ones I know who are adults now were raised on cheesy sitcoms. The ones in the 24-28ish (I don't remember what the offical cut-off year is) had similar upbringings as me, and I'm over 30.

And IMO, gen alpha are worse off because I've seen babies and small children on Youtube and Tiktok almost every day when working with the public. At least the kids born in the late 90s and early 00s had some semblance of an offline childhood.

[(Anonymous)]

This idea of "offline childhood" being valuable or important or necessarily better adjusted is always weird to me ngl. There won't be any future generation where people grow up offline.

Every generation from here on out is going to have an "online childhood" and an "online entire life" so it's likely they'll be better adjusted than say, Gen X to a future where literally everything is online. Lots of older Xers already struggle to realize that the internet is in fact real life, with real life consequences attached.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT but I interpreted the comment to be about young children featuring in vlogs and TikToks, not just watching stuff. And there are definite concerns about that because there are no real protections in place for those kids.

[(Anonymous)]

Spending your whole childhood indoors and hooked up to a screen does have demonstrable negative affects on people. (And I'm not even talking about just psychologically, which is nebulous and harder to quantify. I actually mean physically: look up the myopia epidemic!)

[(Anonymous)]

Respectfully disagree. Spending your time indoor and with screen time from a very early age is going to have a worse affect than those who have been online since they were tweens at most (gen z + young millennials) and teenagers (millennials + xennials). Children are having attention span and motor skills issues in school from using iPads. Speaking from experience, I'm also a millennial "TV kid" and that affected me pretty badly too in regard to social skills, unrestricted internet access is even worse.

[(Anonymous)]

Gen X isn't the ones with that problem, they grew up with the "internet is dangerous be careful" mindset. It's younger generations, maybe younger Millenials, that have the problem of "it's just the internet, nobody cares" mindset.

But also, it's sad to me that you seem to have a very all or nothing. Childhood should not be online. There are so many studies saying how important physical outdoor time is. Also "chronically online" is still a problem. Most people of any generation are not living an "online entire life" type of lifestyle. Yes, everything is connected and everyone spends some time online, but it's not their life.

[(Anonymous)]

>There are so many studies saying how important physical outdoor time is. Also "chronically online" is still a problem.

Oof, yeah. I think the stranger danger panic that millennials grew up in is a huge problem when it comes to this. I went from spending my childhood being a TV kid to becoming chronically online because my father was paranoid I'd get kidnapped if I stray too far away outside and whatnot, didn't really have lasting childhood friends, etc. Now I see gen z glued to electronics younger than I started going online because it's their only way to socialize. It's not the same as how the 35+ crowd stays in touch with people on Facebook, because they got have lives offline.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh no, I'm a gen Xer and the oldest of us (along with the boomers) definitely have a problem not realising that Facebook is real life. Millennials are more likely to have the "embarrassing teen stuff come back to haunt you" problem.

And I agree, it's not all or nothing. Does nobody remember how much time older generations spent in front of the TV? I was only allowed one hour a day and I was very put out about it because everyone talked about various shows at school and I couldn't join in.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm an elder millennial, and I had an entire online life. I know Millennials supposedly "had" an offline childhood, but I did not. I'm nearly 40.

[(Anonymous)]

Even early childhood? Even as a young millennial my family didn't get a computer until 1999. I watched TV and played videogames before that, so my childhood was electronic but not online.

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[(Anonymous)]

i feel sorry for kids who, at 2 years old, are addicted to the phones and the internet. i know it's a good way to keep them quiet and distracted, but i don't think it's good for them. some kids literally do not put them down.

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[(Anonymous)]

I hate the "it keeps them quiet" argument from parents. Why not give them a toy or coloring book if they're being fidgety or hard to calm down in public? That's what my parents did for me, and they're less expensive that a friggin phone that can easily break if a child is too rough with it.