Rant About Technology Use

[thesummerqueen]

see that's the thing - I often hear parents complaining about their kids not talking to them because they're glued to their iphone. Dude, I didn't have a phone until I was 18. I didn't have a game-boy. I had a walkman for a long time and eventually moved to iPod, but that was after I was 17. I studiously ignored my parents because they were BORING and EMBARRASSING.

No, that's not a kid complaint. That's an honest assessment. And I see it in a lot of parents nowadays too. You're fucking boring. You don't want to talk to your kids to actually hear what they care about or have to say, because you don't give a shit about those sorts of things anymore. You're not in that world - you have other worries. You only want to make sure they're not in trouble. So you ask ridiculous shit and say stupid boring things and the conversations are nowhere near as rich or entertaining as what's going on in the iPhone (to them).

Before I had the Android, I FOUND ways to avoid interaction with boring or stupid people - usually in a book, but daydreaming is really great too.