• variants@possumpat.io
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    23
    ·
    1 year ago

    I mean their parents have probably been tracking them since they were kids so they just grew up thinking it’s normal, I also recently learned kids in school feel awkward if they aren’t walking to class while on their phone because then they feel like people will think they aren’t cool enough to have people to talk to at all times

    • Chariotwheel@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      15
      ·
      1 year ago

      I recently saw a video clip by Josh Strife Hayes. He was talking about MMORPG culture, but it can be extended beyond that. It’s about the inability of people to be bored and impatience. Old people can manage with being bored. They can spend an hour not doing much of anything. But the further you go in time, the less patience people have. And that’s not because they are better or worse humans inherently, it’s because they grew up in an society where things increasingly got busy. So it also isn’t a binary old people/young people, but a progressing state of people getting blasted more and more with stuff.

      This is to the point where there are YouTube videos where people cut away little bits of space between sentences just so there isn’t even a second of calm. Social media plattforms just bury you under content and new content suggestions. A lot of games don’t even want to risk downtime and just throw all kinds of random content at you for you to work through., quick travel so you won’t have a few minutes of calm walking somewhere. Just content back to back with more content.

      And this ultimately leads to way more stuff for you than you can consume and an inreasing fear of missing out on something if you’re not constantly on the ball.

      • frunch@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        1 year ago

        This is to the point where there are YouTube videos where people cut away little bits of space between sentences just so there isn’t even a second of calm

        Omg, i really, really don’t like that. It took a little while before i began noticing it but now i can’t ignore it anytime it’s happening. I simply won’t watch those videos because i won’t be able to focus for very long. It can be especially jarring how they’ll cut from one sentence into the next one and the editing makes it seem like their head glitched into another spot. I won’t follow any YouTubers that do this stuff, I’ll find something else to watch ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

        • variants@possumpat.io
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 year ago

          the first time I saw someone watching youtube videos on like double speed was eye opening haha

      • cheese_greater@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        Not gonna lie, I do this for podcasts more to save data and I def am not allergic to silence, per se but I definitely dislike having pure quiet around me.

      • variants@possumpat.io
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        yeah I feel hobbies are really important and boredom is important for your hobbies, thats one reason I had uninstalled reddit in the past because I felt it was just too easy to open up reddit and not touch my hobbies in my free time. Also my younger cousin was once telling me about some kid and how he was an ipad kid, and I asked what that meant and he explained it about how it was a kid who the parents gave them an ipad when they were little to keep them calm. it was kind of funny the first time he told me but now that I notice it it feels pretty sad when I see it

    • Link.wav [he/him]@beehaw.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      14
      ·
      1 year ago

      This makes me sad. My brother and his wife always tracked my niece and nephew, and I feel like it did more harm than good. I remember agreeing to drive my nephew to buy fireworks, and on the way home I swung by Target to pick up my best friend a gift for his wedding, and my sister in law called my nephew and threatened to take his phone away because he wasn’t where he said he was going. Granted, I could have called, but it was a quick stop, and I didn’t know at the time they were watching him 24/7.

      • snooggums@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        1 year ago

        It is important to differentiate between able to know and contact tracking to enable controlling behavior. Knowing to help with communication and transportation arrangements is great, but nitpicking an extra stop on the way home to Target? Sheesh.

        • rgb3x3@beehaw.org
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          5
          ·
          1 year ago

          This is really what it comes down to, I think. When my newborn daughter gets old enough to have a phone and go out on your own, you bet I’m going to make sure I am able to know where she is at all times.

          But I’m going to trust her to do the right thing and make good decisions, so I won’t be demanding she go only where I designate. Kids need to be able to do their own thing and learn through experience. The better lesson is to have them check in with a text every now and then, because it’s the respectful thing to do with family.

          • VegaLyrae@kbin.social
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            1 year ago

            Phone-as-EPIRB is truly one of the biggest benefits.

            I would suggest only having instantaneous location history or very short like 10min to avoid the temptation to pry.

      • hiddengoat@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        1 year ago

        “Wait, you mean you’re going to take away my phone so you’ll have no idea where I am, ever, you stupid fucking dink? Yeah, that’s fucking brilliant. Shut up and make me a pie.”