For you and more importantly your kids....

[Sieg]

Five minutes that may change a life for the better.....

[CURVES]

Trying to convince my 13 year old daughter the consequences of this behavior.

So far.....not much luck

[Sieg]

Originally Posted by CURVES

Trying to convince my 13 year old daughter the consequences of this behavior.

So far.....not much luck

My daughter is 12 and she had a new 13 year old friend over today. I walked into her bedroom and said "hey, I've got a short movie I want you two to watch" they both were glued to the screen.

The impact these toys will have on this generation seriously alarms me.

[Shmoov69]

[Vince@Meanstreets]

I agree in a sence but I can say that I have met more people and have made more friends through several forms of social media. This is over car show events, car clubs, drag racing every wednesday night and going out clubing every weekend.

Its just how you live your life and conduct yourself that makes the difference.

[GregWeld]

I agree with Vince....


While it is certainly true for SOME people that maybe they don't get out and do activities because of the technology... I know for a fact that my kids are ACTIVE because of the technology -- and they have managed to keep in touch with many more friends thru college and after graduation etc via social media... and when they travel - they get together and do stuff. I can't tell you where many of my high school friends are. We never had ways to keep in touch - one move - phone number change and poof...

Think about the get-togethers and the people that many of us have met just because of Lateral-G. I've traveled way out of my way just to go to some event because people were on here talking it up - and saying they'd be there etc.

So like most things -- I think it's a matter of HOW you use it... and if you use it TO LOOK UP FROM THE PHONE.... in other words -- it (technology) can be used to enhance your personal interactions IF used correctly.

Saturday afternoons there is usually an informal gathering of hot rodder out at a local drive in.... We just take our chairs and sit in the shade and blabber and have a burger. I got on the jungle line (phone) to see who - or if any - of my buddies were planning on going out (because of the heat - and we're all old - most of them are 70+ now).. and as soon as I saw they were planning on it -- out I went... once there - none of us used our phones. That may be the real difference.... we used the gadgets to meet up - then the gadgets stayed in our pockets.

[Sieg]

Originally Posted by Vince@MSperfab

I agree in a sense but I can say that I have met more people and have made more friends through several forms of social media. This is over car show events, car clubs, drag racing every wednesday night and going out clubbing every weekend.

Its just how you live your life and conduct yourself that makes the difference.

Vince - From an adult perspective I agree, some of the best friendships I have originated through forums and evolved from there.

My main concern is the young generations. My daughter and many (most) of her friends easily spend more than half the day with their face in the phone and taking selfies. She has a very narrow attention span for anything outside the frame of her iPhone and iTunes. Fundamental development of daily life skills are being suppressed.

Using the productivity/knowledge acquisition features of the phone doesn't happen.....yet.

Without directive she'd most likely conduct her life sitting or laying around eating and snap-chatting or instagramming selfies trying to obtain likes and it's certainly not just her.

Traditional definitions of socially active are certainly changing. The future will tell for or better or worse.

[CURVES]

Originally Posted by Sieg

Vince - From an adult perspective I agree, some of the best friendships I have originated through forums and evolved from there.

My main concern is the young generations. My daughter and many (most) of her friends easily spend more than half the day with their face in the phone and taking selfies. She has a very narrow attention span for anything outside the frame of her iPhone and iTunes. Fundamental development of daily life skills are being suppressed.

Using the productivity/knowledge acquisition features of the phone doesn't happen.....yet.

Without directive she'd most likely conduct her life sitting or laying around eating and snap-chatting or instagramming selfies trying to obtain likes and it's certainly not just her.

Traditional definitions of socially active are certainly changing. The future will tell for or better or worse.

This is exactly where I'm at with my daughter.
My main concern is the lack of physical activity, the technology is a wonderful thing but only with the right balance.
As Sieg points out, for our daughters the productive use has not yet been discovered.

[Vegas69]

Take the smart phones away and get them an old school phone. It's not a necessity, it's a luxury.

[CURVES]

My kid doesn't even have a phone, however the ipod she has is nearly as bad.

I showed her the video this morning, she said she had seen it and that it is very popular. After the initial groaning over another lecture from her father about the use of technology, we had a great conversation. She reminded me of her honor roll grades and how Gates and Zuckerberg didn't look like they got too much exercise.

She gets the larger point though, so I'm feeling somewhat better about it.

Btw. She loses tech privileges at least once a week! Lol