Oh no! no wi fi

Radar · Guru

Oh no! no wi fi

Yuglamron · Guru

I don't think you have a weird sense of humour, but teens today might.

There was a report out last week and I find the figures frightening.

Teens spend an average of 44 hours per week in front of a screen, Phone, tablet, computer.

Preschool kids up to four hours per week. 20% of kids in daycare have phones.

Scary figures.

RustyD · Guru

Today there was a news item that the millennia children have no social skills, no problem solving etc because they totally rely on social media for contact and for google to find answers. It was quite frightening.

And another item www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-04/does-your-child-need-a-psychologist/8673726

Radar · Guru

And even I go looking on google for answers, it is so quick, at my finger tips.

It is amazing you look for onething and come away with a lot more questions needing answers.

RustyD · Guru

Radar wrote:
And even I go looking on google for answers, it is so quick, at my finger tips.
It is amazing you look for onething and come away with a lot more questions needing answers.

Couldn't agree more except that I usually start on Wikipedia and then go link, link, link ............. and end up nowhere near where I started. If you really want to go around in circles try going friends of friends of friends .... on Facebook and see if you can get back to yourself.

Sarco Harris · Senior Member

I have quite a number of "mature aged" friends who will not, under any circumstances travel out of mobile coverage. They will live with no mobile in transit but absolutely 'MUST' have it of an evening to keep up to date on twitter, facebook, instagram, email etc. and primarily to stream their favourite TV shows.

Typically come 5:30pm they all disappear into their vans to only re-emerge the following morning.

I say - may as well stay home!

Sarco

The Belmont Bear · Guru

We have started to notice lately when in a pub or a restaurant the number of young people who sit at a table opposite each other totally engrossed in their mobile phones. Personally I would have found it a bit insulting if I had taken a girl out for a meal and she was more interested in her phone than she was in me, then again we didn't have mobile phones in our day. Sad to think that young people are losing their ability to communicate face to face - that sign Radar proves that this is not just something that is unique to this part of the world.

Mike Harding · Guru

I have spent a working lifetime designing high tech electronics since the days valves were commonplace to the latest ARM processors and I really wonder if we, as a society, have headed down the right social path.

So many people wrapped up in stupid pieces of electronics junk communicating pointless rubbish to people they, often, don't like much. People ignoring direct human interaction in order to check their latest e-mail (it was probably spam).

Children spending many hours per day (five is not uncommon) playing stupid games on computers - and parents think this is OK!? Well, I suppose it saves the demanding task of parenting - they might just not have created the children instead?

Parents spending too much time on their phones: a recent UK survey showed children thought their parents were on their phones too much.

So that's families stuffed then.

And all this for what? So you can see a "friend" you met once three years ago has bought a new dress or you've been "CCed" on another work e-mail about something which has nothing to do with you....

Technology can be great: GPS is a major advance I use a lot, my high resolution video camera, my software defined Amateur Radio transceiver, my 10 year old Nokia mobile phone, my Kindle etc BUT we should be the master of it and not the other way around - know when to turn the bloody stuff off.

The internet may, sometimes, provide knowledge but I have yet to see it provide wisdom.

RustyD · Guru

In 1970, I started learning valve & transistor theory in Electronics. By the end of the year, our textbook was the Fairchild semi-conductor catalogue. In same year, I was learning FORTRAN programming. One extreme to the other. A $2 watch today has more computing power than a mainframe of that era.

My daughter (late 30s) comes to visit and spends her entire time texting. After she leaves I ask my wife what did daughter want. Answer is generally "no idea". The only words are generally telling her son (7) to get off my spare computer scanning YouTube for kids games. We ask her what's the difference between what she is doing and what her son is doing. Never get an answer as another text message needs reading & answering.