A screaming child who had his iPad taken might come to your mind. Alpha Kids are reportedly not doing well in school and many are subject to the algorithms of today. They will have a front row seat to the future we are headed towards.
Do you have hope that Generation Alpha will live happy and fulfilling lives?
I wish they did live happy, but seeing the world and how is it going I have strong doubts.
But I’m no blaming the kids for this. I’m blaming the parent thinking that an iPad is a great distraction to keep the kid busy and the rest of the society that has voted consistently to put in charge assholes who openly made education worse every time they could.
And yes, I do think that stupid iPad is to blame even though I grew up with a gameboy. My gameboy had games, it played tetris, it played mario or pokemon. My gameboy didn’t have tiktok or youtube. It’s not the same thing.
I’d argue games are significantly better for development than video. Solving problems, learning game rules, reading game dialogue, separating fiction from reality, etc.
Yes, cartoon and videos have their place, but get off the meaningless shorts and gambling games.
The iPad is just a PC tbh. Whether they install emulators or TikTok, VLC or YouTube, educational games or pseudo-gambling adware.
There are parental controls on every device, so this is just bad parenting.
Might as well blame the VCR for a parent buying inappropriate VHSs in the 80’s.
Yes, but: not falling into the slop machine takes willpower and learned skills. Modern social media is like a drug. Many adults use drugs responsibly to have good times, but we all agree that we should keep kids away from them.
Yep I think we agree, good parents should not give their children unrestricted access to social media, gambling, porn, drugs etc.