The Impact of Growing Up with Smartphones

The Impact of Growing Up with Smartphones | A Bit of Optimism

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@Laaaaaaa15 6 ай бұрын

It sucks because even if you have the awareness and the motivation to get off of your devices, what then? All of your friends and peers are still addicted. Who are you supposed to hang out with? What are you supposed to do? There are no third spaces, let alone teen-friendly ones. You’re completely alone, whether you’re on your phone or off of it.

@carolinaduque6227 6 ай бұрын

Playing sports is a great way to do it, but unfortunately not available to everyone

@GoodHydration 6 ай бұрын

Parks and recreation, fishing, learn to paint, take up an instrument, skateboard, exercise, start learning a martial art, learn a life skill, READ... READ!

@yashtapase3821 6 ай бұрын

Yeah same feeling as 19y o

@yashtapase3821 6 ай бұрын

I hangout with friends but all of them give 90% attention to their phone And if I communicate with them on phone then I get more than 50% attention So that's what I observed

@Laaaaaaa15 6 ай бұрын

@@GoodHydration I appreciate what you’re saying, and agree that these are all great pursuits, but almost all of these are solitary activities.

@BreannaMae 4 ай бұрын

Then there’s us Gen X’ers. We grew up without computers, Internet, cell phones, streaming, and social media. We listened to records on turntables, we typed out our papers on typewriters, we called people from a phone connected to the wall via a cord that we’d twirl around our fingers. We spent our childhoods outdoors riding bikes, going on adventures, building forts, going to the theater to see the latest gory slasher film or rom com. We listened to the radio on our boomboxes all day in hopes to hear the perfect song for the mixtape we were planning to give to our crush. We enjoyed life because all we had was each other and that was alright with us.

@know973 4 ай бұрын

Gen xer here, I first got a cell phone at 32 years old. I find the world incredibly boring now. I 2nd what you said, the old days will forever be missed. Actually living and experiencing!!

@tessa7793 4 ай бұрын

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@Mmmmkaaay 4 ай бұрын

Yep. I can't even remember how I drove around without GPS. I used my brain I guess.

@BreannaMae 4 ай бұрын

@@Mmmmkaaay Haha oh I am absolutely grateful for GPS technology! Using paper maps or just winging it always made me nervous, especially while on the larger road trips. Now it's a breeze to travel! All I have to do is start my car and it tells me exactly where to go! I'm never going to complain about those technological advancements lol.

@ModernBuilds 6 ай бұрын

Organized sports…. Problem solved 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

@blueberriesrfine5538 5 ай бұрын

I totally agree. As a Gen X parent to a Gen Z kid, they are NOT getting together. My son wants so badly to hang out with other teens and it's almost impossible! If my son gets off HIS phone, all his friends are still on theirs. Where does that leave him? Even more disconnected. It's sad and lonely for so many teens these days. The pandemic didn't help this generation either as far as social skills go. Wish there was a solution. Edit: a difference may be that my son didn't get a phone until 14 yrs old, all of the other teens were long addicted by then.

@tessa7793 4 ай бұрын

I'm grateful to be Gen X with four Gen Z kids No phones !!! They have friends and plenty activities

@charlesdahmital8095 6 ай бұрын

I grew up with a dial phone attached to a wall with a stretched out 20 foot handset chord.

@Loralanthalas 4 ай бұрын

Seriously. These people are old hypocrite ms proud in their own arrogance pretending they're better and that there is "something wrong with the younger generation".

@sailorcowboy 4 ай бұрын

@@Loralanthalas The person (charles) just stated an innocent fact about their childhood and said nothing about being better. YOU made an inference based on NOTHING factual presented to you.

@stevemichael8458 4 ай бұрын

@@sailorcowboy The victim gene is strong.

@GENERALTIM21 6 ай бұрын

It is an important thing to learn in almost any aspect of life, if you take something away it needs to be replaced by something else, otherwise it will build resentment, anger, and the person will often relapse or rubber band back to where they were and potentially be more invested in the thing that was initially removed. For example - french fries, chips, deep fried potato, whatever you call them where you're from -- we all know theyre bad for us be we keep eating them. It is easy to tell someone "stop eating them", it is much harder, but much more beneficial, to replace them with a healthy alternative, like steamed potato and some healthy fats like nuts or something. I hope this analogy comes across the way I intend it to.

@nicholashenderson6941 6 ай бұрын

Hold up, millennials didn't get flip phones until they were well into puberty, and most didn't get a cell until 16 or older when they paid for it themselves. You can't compare the two as the landscape is so vastly different.

@dannydetonator 6 ай бұрын

True, especially in 2nd and 3rd world countries. I got the first phone in my class, a Nokia 1101 or similar with 3 finger rechargable batteries and two lines of text just before year 2000 or 16yo. And i'm from Europe. Then the boom of non-flip phones started here and some of us made our first decent revenue selling and buying them. Novelty was everything, but most had no color screens and you could not watch a video for years to come on a budget phone most kids could afford.. Only time we spent looking at screens were TV, PC with the first expensive internet and game consoles, and it would get mundane much quicker than any connected smartphone today. Web-1.0 was the most interesting and time-consuming for me when i could get to it. Web-2 is what got us all addicted, and it's objectively worse. It might even be the downfall of our civilisation imho.

@sugahoney89 4 ай бұрын

I was 13 with a Nokia phone

@SisterJanet 4 ай бұрын

I was allowed one when I was 12.

@nellier3468 4 ай бұрын

Me and my older millennial friends did not have our own phones.

@levinwitt6622 4 ай бұрын

For everyone saying you need to give people a replacement for what to do without phones, you don't. Just don't have phones and people would have no choice but to find other things to do, ie meeting ppl

@SoftEarthHoney 6 ай бұрын

I was at a family park recently and it was so refreshing to see kids playing. Just groups of kids playing with a kite, kicking balls and just interacting with each other. Not a phone in sight and it was just magical watching them be so carefree. I grew up without cellphones and had the time of my life.

@Loralanthalas 4 ай бұрын

It's just old people saying gen z sucks. Don't listen to them. These are the same people who literally BEAT the crap out of their kids. These are the same people who insisted rock, heavy metal and rap was "devil worshiping music". They told you video games would make you violent because you're a kid and too stupid to understand a game versus real life. They worship jocks, their glory days was high school, and for the past 40 years they've been waiting to die because literally the last time they looked forward to anything was before you were born.

@puccan479 6 ай бұрын

Sports. All year long. Soccer preferably, exposes them to multiple cultures and teaches them about the rest of the world. Great cardio, and they will learn the importance of earning a win.

@tanler7953 5 ай бұрын

Absolutely. The young people I've met who've played sports, especially team sports, are more mature and socially adjusted.

@danielmusic3557 6 ай бұрын

Ban phones definitively from schools. Period. The “I need it in case of an emergency” is such a flawed argument. For CENTURIES lids didnt have access and they were fine!

@djamilawilschke7259 6 ай бұрын

for centuries there were no school shootings … i hear you and wholeheartedly agree, but schools are just not as safe from emergencies as they used to be - and i‘m speaking for the US only - the rest of us are fairly safe

@Kassidar 6 ай бұрын

@@djamilawilschke7259"Mom I just heard gunshots come pick me up!" I'm not sure what you think smartphones are going to do about school shootings

@Morbing_Time 6 ай бұрын

Sounds like you just want easy targets

@tonyravioli1982 6 ай бұрын

@Morbing_Time yeah sure. You are more likely to get struck by lightning than to be shot in a school shooting but you need a phone... 😂

@auscaliber1 5 ай бұрын

i agree that would be good, but the in case of emergency argument isnt flawed because people couldnt do it earlier - you could say the same about ambulances or helicopters. what if a phone just 1 time made the difference for 1 kid? really hard to justify the ban if youre that kids parent. again, i agree no phones at all in schools would be better, but your argument itself is flawed.

@galigyal399 6 ай бұрын

Does this mean millennial are just as bad parents as boomers?

@skinnybuddha8988 6 ай бұрын

I think it's the worst invention we've ever had. What sucks is if you have your kid not online they're ostracized, even hanging out in person.

@crispyslicker1038 6 ай бұрын

only true for the socially devoid. i’m one of those kids and know hundreds of people and friends who live far away from this outside perspective

@Most0riginalUsername 5 ай бұрын

Millennials grew up without phones because it was the 90s. Classmates of mine had their first phone in 2000, we were 10 and some of us got them even later

@g00p248 5 ай бұрын

Millennials are across a 10 yr span. We had landlines. I didn't get my own phone until I was 14, just starting high school and it was a free one given by Verizon at the time. That was 2009.

@nellier3468 4 ай бұрын

Yeah I’m an older millennial and I didn’t get a cell phone until college.

@ChadTheChad 4 ай бұрын

The challenge though, most or probably all my kid’s friends are using gadgets. In the end he’d be the only one left not holding the gadgets or finally just join his friends playing something on their gadgets. So it’s really a big homework for the other parents who are in that circle as well.

@blah1632 4 ай бұрын

For everyone asking, sports and clubs are a great way to meet other kids who aren't on their phones

@MelindaEveraert 4 ай бұрын

Exactly what I told my kids. Either sports or clubs. And lots of chores. You live here you work. Not coming home from school and playing video games.

@TigerShark316 4 ай бұрын

I have a job where I interact with people of all ages. Young adults and teenagers are so awkward and unable to communicate with me. It’s very strange and disturbing.

@rachelcampbell6197 5 ай бұрын

Gen Z has been such a tough crop to raise. Their Gen X parents found themselves faced with technology that advanced so fast, I've compared it to how things would be if my great grandparents suddenly having to raise us, as if they were transported from 1890 to 1985 and had to adapt.

@nicholasaustin2717 6 ай бұрын

Many older millennials have a Thomas Guide in their memory box. Older millennials (1986ish) were in college libraries pulling articles from journals. Older millennials had to type a lot of what they would then copy & paste. Older millennials had to photocopy or hand copy a classmates notes. Older millennials had to listen to directions on how to get to the address. Our moms weren’t on social media. We tend to use technology with a vestigial symbiosis understanding of technology. We saw who entered the data and we know the model isn’t perfect because the data can’t be perfect. In addition, all millennials in the USA had the opportunity to participate in (or to sit out of) a booming economic period. We saw that seemingly inexplicable traditions can impact the quality of your life. We saw how suspending those traditions can save fuel and time but somehow make things worse for most people. Gen-Z never witnessed (in person) the alchemy that occurs when a “Jim” puts on a work uniform and sits at a desk near a “Dwight” who is wearing a work uniform, and they do things that could be done from their lonely kitchen table.

@kontrygrll01amerika54 5 ай бұрын

People do not have social interactions anymore, they have interactions with devices, then complain they are lonely and do not know how to meet people.Get out of the house! Put the phone away and look around you. Go window shopping and look at things instead of a screen. Talk to people out walking too even if it is only to smile and say "Beautiful day!" Go to a beer brewing place that has music and sit enjoying some music and a soda if you do not drink. Seating is often limited and ask if you can sit at a table with other people. Open up your World and get to know some people by doing activities outside your home. Look in the back of local papers for activities that are listed like garden clubs, hiking groups, etc. Just get off tge darn ph9nes and computers if you want yo meet people

@PurpleNinja-vn4hv 6 ай бұрын

Gen z here, didn’t get a phone until 6th grade, and even then it was deliberately a flip phone. Had that until I was a freshman in high school and looking back on it the difference between myself and my peers now is immense.

@amandasjoberg463 5 ай бұрын

I'm curious, how would you describe the difference between you and your peers?

@SuperLifestream 5 ай бұрын

I didn't get a phone until I was about 13, in 2005. Didn't "grow up" with a phone. Most people I knew didn't really use their phone. Especially like they do today

@laughingvampire7555 5 ай бұрын

bruh, Gen X got a phone until we were able to buy it with our own money, that was until our 20s, when the brain is almost done maturing, if you got it in 6th grade then that is 14 years of damage during the process of brain maturation. Technology can even hurt a fully matured brain. And you got 14 years of exposure. You can be ok after you fast on technology, and develop a routine like the one Huberman suggests in his podcast, well he speaks about every part of what you should consider for your routine and you are the one responsible to assemble that routine with your neurologist. and then you get back to tech and avoid social media.

@PurpleNinja-vn4hv 4 ай бұрын

@@amandasjoberg463 I’m not completely immune from it as much as I’d like to be, but I’ve noticed a general trend of impatience, short attention spans and a preference of instant gratification in the types of media they tend to consume. I’m hard pressed to find anyone these days who’s willing to sit through a long bus very good film without resisting the urge to pull out their phone and scroll through social media. Makes me laugh when I pause the movie so they don’t miss anything important and I get some form of “no it’s okay I’m watching!” No you aren’t!

@PurpleNinja-vn4hv 4 ай бұрын

@@laughingvampire7555 I envy y’all being able to grow up and have a childhood without this tech shoved in your faces at too young of an age. Makes me want to cry when I see a family of 4, mom dad and two preschool aged kids at a restaurant and the kids are both glued to an iPad rotting their brains with those baby shark-type videos. Oh well, world’s goin to hell fast

@theexpert758 6 ай бұрын

I firmly believe people are sleeping on a second "lost generation". Theres clearly a spot in between millennials and gen z and it drives me crazy. I was born in 98 i am not a zoomer or millennial i can guarantee that. I have lived through a time where there were not ipods then there was and now again there not there.

@nickromo8195 6 ай бұрын

Wow that's awesome I just had the thought about the iPods showing up after not being there then going away again earlier today.

@mimiintexas 6 ай бұрын

My Gen Z kids had flip phones until high school. They played outside and drank from the water hose like their Gen X parents. :)

@Loralanthalas 4 ай бұрын

@darnelltabor6382 5 ай бұрын

Children shouldn't have had the whole world & its horrors in the hands. We didnt know.

@SacredKaw 6 ай бұрын

Gen X-res grow up with a house attached to their phones. We win!

@andyb619 6 ай бұрын

We need parents to come together in groups and organise cell phone free gatherings. to limit by agreement with one another their children’s cell phone use in a coordinated manner. It makes it easier to limit your child’s access when their friends don’t have it either.

@Violet_Moone13 5 ай бұрын

Would love to find this. All their friends are on screens & trying to get together with them is nearly impossible.. I’m the mean mom that limits screens & we do things together & my kids read & youngest is in scouts. It’s a daily struggle tho

@andyb619 5 ай бұрын

@@Violet_Moone13 I hear you. The problem is a dilemma where the worse behaved push down the standards of the group and the strictest parents become the outlier. As a consequence the parents are trying to out do one another at letting things slide and standards slip.

@quinnkrug1971 5 ай бұрын

I like how he said “this is what WE did to gen Z” instead of blaming them. Also good point if you take their phone away you have to give them something to do

@Loralanthalas 4 ай бұрын

@Phoenix487559 5 ай бұрын

Kids also need to hang out with adults. Kids are being starved of good conversation and having to sit and listen to adults while they have an intellectual discussion. Help them to understand the importance of language and listening. One of the problems is that family groups don’t hang out anymore and kids don’t grow up with multigenerational conversation skills. Now we seclude kids to their own age group, and sometimes their own gender, so that they stuck in a little bubble, is the exact opposite of well rounded. Prep schools might be great for learning how to be rich, but they’re not very good at learning how to be a good human.

@tanler7953 5 ай бұрын

Many people would object to adults hanging out with kids.

@Phoenix487559 5 ай бұрын

@@tanler7953are you one of those people?

@tanler7953 5 ай бұрын

@@Phoenix487559 I don't know. Recently I wanted to ask my cousin's son some questions related to his work but I was told that's inappropriate. Similarly, for when I asked my wife about speaking to her nephew (he approached me first). These people are not kids. They are both in their 30s. When I was in university we used to hang out with our professors. Nobody objected at the time. I used to think this kind of cross-generational contact was okay, but it looks like norms have changed.

@stephaniejynelleimhoff854 4 ай бұрын

Mine get together. There was phone jail in my house if friends were over. Board games and other things were provided. They eventually made up their own games. The good thing is, we exposed our kids to being with people and friends. Playing sports, music and meeting other wherever we traveled. It is amazing to see them as young adults still hanging out with their friends and still putting their phones down. Gen X parent here that operates in both worlds.

@justinsugay1149 5 ай бұрын

80% of life is dealing with people. Digital devices enable isolation until you really need interaction and by then apathy and disfunction are so prevalent it makes life harder to nearly impossible. You see it coming but don't care until it's too late. Please do what you can right now! I see the irony in stating this here like this but it still is valid and important. Best

@mihaiat3ka186 5 ай бұрын

Gen z with iPhones? You kidding? 😂😂😂 Nokia 3310 was EVOLUTION compared to 1 shared landline 😂😂😂

@theworldaccordingtojaimie8348 5 ай бұрын

Social Media LITERALLY has SOCIAL in the title people 🤦🏽‍♀️ This reeks of old people talking about things they don’t actually understand.

@alohakachina 4 ай бұрын

I love that you’re bringing attention to this personally I take the phones away often. They complain about being bored and I let them, but it’s in their boredom that they contemplate their actions that they’re insightful… I’ve even had the pleasure of observing them become super creative and artistic way, and then eventually they found their way outside to be a nature and socialize with their friends.

@janburmester3756 5 ай бұрын

Im 55 yesos Old. My way Of thinking About tecnology like Smart Phone or what Ever Is that Everything Is a toll; social media is now the people interact. For me is how we use a toll, instead of use less the toll. If you travel to the pass before cars, everyone was thinking the same way you are thinking now; which is, about how cars are going to change everyone’s life. Not using the toll is not the answer. The answer is to use the toll properly. I use every peace of technology that I can reach. Advance humans only with technology. I would like to integrate my phone with my brain so I will have my hands free because I still need to wash the dishes at home. By the way I have children; my oldest is 26; and youngest is 10 months. Humans we should never stop until dead.

@RhetoricalMuse 4 ай бұрын

I have three Godkids, all under 14. All have access to the internet, only two have phones and computers (the eldest two). What I find is that they game a lot, but also social whilst doing it. They have friends all over the world. Problem is - it's not holisitcally real. You need presence to solidify it.

@FIFAace 6 ай бұрын

He actually has a pretty poor definition of gen Z - a lot of millennials got smartphones and internet access around the same time as puberty. I'm even on the cusp, a Zillennial, and I had a computer when i was 7, and a smartphone when i was 12. Kids really shouldn't own electronic devices before age 10 or so. Use, sure, but access should be limited. It really shapes how your mind works, especially in the developing years, and now so many people like myself are addicted to video games and social media, and it's incredibly challenging to break habits you've been reinforcing for decades.

@ScottWDoyle 5 ай бұрын

This is the typical oversimplification of today's "thought leadership." Sinek is popular; there are some gems to be found; but ultimately he's shallow.

@jemaineoliver1833 5 ай бұрын

This is evolution. There’s no going backwards from here. Now, we have to figure out away to still go in the direction that’s healthy from a society perspective. Trying to bottleneck the influx of information will not work. Notice, it’s only the older generation that finds this to be a problem because that’s not the way they/we grew up. Ethics/values/integrity will be the determining factors and how the information is used. That’s taught and instilled in a person. That’s where we failed.

@our-little-input 5 ай бұрын

I was born in 2000 whatever category you want to make up for it. There’s no difference what so ever between the generation with flip phones and iPhones. These guys and those who agree are just overanalysing a situation, as someone who lives in the real and interacts with people, obviously, there’s no difference in these generations or the older and younger people. The only differences to conclude is that of society and its effects I can prove it, mental health has been trendy for the last 10 years and is growing in popularity. Young people aren’t more susceptible to mental health it’s just become trendy so people jump on the trend. Obviously people are going to “destroy” my point because I’ve created a lot of undefended attack vectors and not completely explained my point because I can’t be assed.

@americanbookdragon 5 ай бұрын

Millennials had the same BS as Gen-Z. It was just tethered to a computer that you couldn’t move. Gen-Z simply had mobility with the internet.

@AlbatrossKnight 5 ай бұрын

I m a teacher and I deal with Gen Z on a day to day basis. Gen Z are asleep. They have zero urgency. They don't know the meaning of initiative in the slightest. And worst of all, they use victimhood as a form of power. If they don't know how to do something, they will play the victim and if you don't show them how to do it, then you are the bad guy for bullying them. It's like they need spoonfeeding on a level never imagined before.

@ineedhoez 4 ай бұрын

Millennials definitely didn't grow up with flip phones. Flip phones existed but nobody had a freaking phone. There's a handful of people with money that had phones and I was like 16 at the time. A phone was a privilege

@ethandenton3393 5 ай бұрын

I mean we (millennials) didn't have flip phones until ike 2005 i feel like so in our teens at the earliest, and parents didn't often give them to their kids, so "growing up with filp phones" feels wrong. To me that means from age 3-12

@DirdeeD 5 ай бұрын

Gen Z is super fragile and they can't properly communicate outside their generation. It's sad. A lot of those kids are suffering from crippling social anxiety. They are starting to enter the workplace and it's really bad.

@t_york_t 6 ай бұрын

…and you discuss it on social media….😅 - how ironic- that’s almost cynical…😂👍🏾 - I like your kind of humor! 😅

@johndo2627 5 ай бұрын

Fat chance of that happening. A lot of schools now even issue iPads instead of textbooks. Book and paper mediums for all but legal/financial communications are becoming a thing of the past.

@tomandjennacali1879 4 ай бұрын

That’s not true what are you talking about? Millennials are a mess and we are just as messed up by social media. We just remeber when it wasn’t our entire lives but we were all like 16 when Facebook came out. We are just as screwed and the consequences are hitting us right now so hard. We are 35 year old I pad kids and many of us don’t know what to do about marriage and kids. Dont act like we are interacting in real life more than gen z that’s just not true

@mtconfer 5 ай бұрын

My Gen z coworkers are mostly deeply insecure and unbelievably awkward. It’s wild.

@lejlagabela 4 ай бұрын

One more 'expert' who never put himself in kids shoes.. you don't understand kids, you just think you know what's best. And that's worst

@keithstack6321 5 ай бұрын

We will see. It definitely seems not good. But I do delivery driving, and I feel like I see as many kids causing trouble out in the streets as I did when I was a kid. Idk, kids are so biologically driven to socialize and interact. I could see phones hurting the 20+ age group the most. Your hormones and energy level drop, you are not as driven to get out there, and then tech becomes a strong competing incentive to just stay inside.

@mtherload 5 ай бұрын

I',m actually happy I'm gen x...well not happy, but at least I have a connection with a older 'less tech-reliant' generation meaning, I listen when people talk

@mtherload 5 ай бұрын

I',m actually happy I'm gen x...well not happy, but at least I have a connection with a older 'less tech-reliant' generation meaning, I listen when people talk

@flufwix 4 ай бұрын

Honestly all this generalization about groups born in specific periods is mostly nonsense. Don’t get sucked into it. It’s just another form of tribalism

@michelpieters4376 5 ай бұрын

By calling it Gen Z, we have created a greater distance. You are absolutely right, but naming it Z, we do not bring them closer to us. They are feeling seperated. Its a brain thing, so dont put them in a corner.

@michaelhoodleeder 4 ай бұрын

Oh my God. Another old man video complaining about things they don't understand. You don't need to worry about gen. Z they are so much smarter than you realise.

@mathewjohnson464 5 ай бұрын

Or, educate your child on the changing world and help give them the tools they need to succeed. Theres plenty of social development on a cell phone, it’s just very different. The reality is society is more likely to depend on these mediums even more in the immediate future. Disadvantaging kids instead of parents taking the time to educate themselves on how to help them is what’s going wrong. Same concept as all the sheltered kids who go get alcohol poisoning the first weekend of college

@MelindaRodriguez-cs1kn 4 ай бұрын

If that is what’s needed then If the actions of the Someone or a group where to completely isolate or nearly isolate a person from social interaction, Then that might be considered “depriving a person of their basic needs.” Or a form of torture in a way.

@jaydubyo 5 ай бұрын

Is it just me or do every last one of these talking head people not know a single damn thing that they're talking about like literally every word that comes out of their mouth is conjecture overly analytical opinions or basic bull crap

@DaveE99 6 ай бұрын

Can we just vote to create a certain like 3 day period every so often when we just shut off the internet and media. Like you know, force people to say hi to their neighbor and maybe visit a freind.

@wheelz1325 5 ай бұрын

Knowing what I know now about technology if I had a kid they wouldn't have a phone until they were 15 and no social media until they were out of my house if they wanted to make that mistake that would be Theirs to make

@gertstronkhorst2343 6 ай бұрын

Simon Sinek, kicking in open doors and overgeneralizing the crap out of everything, so you don't have to.

@rosezful5241 5 ай бұрын

Maybe the end of the Gen Z pack but Gen Y, the first millennials, are those that had the best mixture of both worlds.

@Jealod24 5 ай бұрын

Millennials didn’t grow up with flip phones… most were late teens or early 20’s when flip phones became the norm

@mdruffy235 4 ай бұрын

Begging parents who are likely watching this on their phones to restrict their children access to them is ironic. The world is a different place from when you grew up. Get with it or get left behind.

@adm22531 5 ай бұрын

These differences are superficial and do not go as deep as people like this guy insist. Bullshit like the kind of media someone grows up with or the technology they grow up with do not define them as people like some assert.

@richardmckrell4899 5 ай бұрын

Gen Z's #1 priority is to conform. Gen Z's biggest anxiety is not being part of an admired group.

@jimpickens5936 5 ай бұрын

No, gen z grew up with tape recorders and dvds running around outside until they got phones when they became teenagers. They had everyone warn them of strangers and scammers on the internet and saw their parents become those who don’t listen to their own advice anymore

@cfvcafrava3162 Ай бұрын

I’ve tried so hard to give my daughter different things to do but she always returns to her phone it’s heartbreaking to see her drowning in that world and when I take her phone away it’s so disturbing how she reacts

@fan8706 5 ай бұрын

This take is promoted everywhere because in the long run it makes money. Please don't let this persuade you unless you want to be seen yourself.

@melbeth79 6 ай бұрын

I'm glad we're making the distinction between millennials and Gen Z better now because for quite some time people were using these two generations interchangeably. Growing up we were told Gen X went til '83 but now they seem to say 1965-1980. This means the oldest millennials are turning 43 this year and many can forget that the oldest ones are now approaching middle age. I was born only two years before the "geriatric millennial line" and have a son who'll turn 23 this year. He's a gen Z that has somehow escaped social media addiction he has none, just YT. He is however, addicted to collecting old phones he buys off the internet, making videos about them on his channel, then reselling them. Thankfully he's quit buying all these phones so much now. My son's biggest issue has been exessive gaming but I realize many Gen Z struggle with social media addiction. My heart goes out to them, I met many while being a mature student and I like them. They're facing many interesctional issues being digital natives. Me, I didn't even have a cellphone until I was 26 or any social media until I was 35.

@dannydetonator 6 ай бұрын

Yeah, this classification confused me when i first heard of it. I was born84(i keep it from the internet usually) in USSR and we only recently adopted the concept "millenial" as a new anglicism, way after i read about it online. Gen-X here doesn't even know about any of the western generational classification. First i thought i'm that gen-X, as i don't fit the stereotype of western millenial, then i found the line for that is 1980, which doesn't make sense to me. I guess i am millenial then. These are boxes which not all people fit - or shoud be fitted in. I've ended up isolating myself from society lately because reasons - similar to zoomers, but i feel older than millenials. YT is the only social network i use for years now, so i don't have "onine friends" at all. It is addictive if not curbed though, but can be useful, especially if you make content yourself or know how to find correct information. Btw respect to your son for grifting with vintage celphones, i did it around the turn of millenium when they were new for a good profit. You can still use them in interesting ways - and it's an alternative lifestyle option if you can survive without apps and touchscreens. I wish we could go back before the screen-addiction and forever-online resulting in the current poisonous info-wars. No turning back time and point in nostalgia, just hope we get smarter before apocalypse forces us to go back.

@melbeth79 6 ай бұрын

@@dannydetonator A few years ago I first heard the term "Xennial", it was described as a microgeneration between between Gen X and Millenial, born 1977-1983. Since I was born in '79 I was interested to hear how this "microgeneration" was described. I found was that it fit me very well, since it had traits from both generations. I find older Xers are more blunt and generally don't value certain things I do, yet in other ways I can be "very Gen X", it really depends upon the context. Thanks for the complement, ie: my son. He's pretty tech saavy (unlike me lol) so it has been interesting to see him develop a thing for these older phones with much less technology. He makes YT videos about them and tells me there's a subculture of people are into that type of content.

@adm22531 5 ай бұрын

@@melbeth79 these terms don't mean anything. There are no genuine concrete differences between people of different "generations" because generations do not exist. It's a bunch of fucking nonsense.

@Violet_Moone13 5 ай бұрын

@@melbeth79yup 81 here & I found xenial more fitting. Different sources have different years listed so there’s no hard fast rule but I do find it interesting. Kids these days are definitely growing up in a much different world, & we are the first generation of parents to raise kids who were born with tech literally at their fingertips… and alll the challenges that goes with that

@Bamboule05 4 ай бұрын

On the other hand, imagine you are a black lesbian in red neck country. Without the internet that person would be very lonely.

@ljfinger 4 ай бұрын

Completely false snd based on the false premise that everyone is the same - social. Some people are born, grow up and are happier when they are mostly alone.

@moslemhasirbaf2388 4 ай бұрын

i dont think you should geneeralize that..my kids have their devices and dont have confidence issues. the personality of the kid has to be taken into account

@atavax311 5 ай бұрын

I'm a millennial and I didn't get a cell phone until after high school. and I'm like middle of the pack millennial for age...

@Soekell 6 ай бұрын

Sinke enters his second round of spreading generational superficial observations…

@Eli_of_the_valley 5 ай бұрын

I’m a gen I grew up with a flip phone. But maybe it’s most of us in our country cause we broke

@sorayajohansson1156 5 ай бұрын

i disagree. as a 16 year old living in silicon valley most people i grew up with didnt get phones until later and even right now in highschool people are very engaged with one another and in sports etc.

@devashishpareek5642 5 ай бұрын

Paradox, the other kids are still not leaving the phones, start banning the phones before the age of 16

@Bryan-fb8dh 5 ай бұрын

Grew up? No cell phones bud. No internet. Thats the difference.

@riosurfsurvive 6 ай бұрын

This interview was AMAZING!!

@KiKiQuiQuiKiKi 4 ай бұрын

I see babies and toddlers playing with iPads and phones so that the parents “don’t need to” interact with them. 😢

@davidbentley4731 4 ай бұрын

I don’t think this is a helpful conversation. Stop putting people in generations.

@elnabenoit 4 ай бұрын

Play in the band or orchestra, take music lessons, play sports, watch friends play sports, dance, act, watch others dance and act. Pick up litter. Visit your grandmother. So many things to do.

@lisetteem588 5 ай бұрын

why dont you let them speak for them selves. they had phones and friends. before it was books.

@lynetterogers3574 4 ай бұрын

Gen z was locked down for covid at the beginning of puberty.

@deborah9229 6 ай бұрын

Millennials grew up outside playing until they were forced to come inside, gen z grew up racking up $1000+ cell phone bills for their parents and the only interaction came by way of video games.

@hopefulaardvark 5 ай бұрын

Alpha has had smart devices since birth… They’re going to be even worse

@kontrygrll01amerika54 5 ай бұрын

You have to give them something to do..... my parents just sent us outside and said to be home inside before dark. Other kids were not always available. I rode my bicycle all over town, window shopped, climbed trees, make bows and arrows from some steing and tree branches, made a treehouse from scrounged materials, went to the library, explored behind shops and buildings for materials that had been thrown away, etc. This was being a boomer as they call us, we learned to amuse ourselves with no need for money or things that cost money.

@Violet_Moone13 5 ай бұрын

The problem is more busy bodies calling the cops when they see kids outside unattended than something actually happening to them. This is what my parents did too but everyone is afraid to send kids outside so they sit in Front of screens instead.

@kontrygrll01amerika54 5 ай бұрын

@@Violet_Moone13 And what is the police doing, responding to a non-event like a bunch of kids bicycling or playing together? And what is there to be afraid of? Most of the time no one goes missing and even us kids in the 1960s had a cop come into the classroom and tell us not to get close to cars if an adult wanted directions or had a puppy. Kids in a group are not what kidnappers want, they want to solitary kid to take with little fuss. We can not live in fear our entire lives or you become paralyzed with anxiety as adults by thoughts of things that never happen. Action is the antidote to anxiety, move your body. Get stronger in both your mind and body, kidnappers are after the weak and helpless feeling kids. They see it in your walk and how you react to your surroundings. Become aware and interact with your environment, learn who your neighbors are so you know when there is a strange vehicle in your neighborhood.

@Loralanthalas 4 ай бұрын

Crime rates were higher in the 80s. But you didnt know becusae news jas alwats been for profit. This is just old people saying gen z sucks. Don't listen to them. These are the same people who literally BEAT the crap out of their kids. These are the same people who insisted rock, heavy metal and rap was "devil worshiping music". They told you video games would make you violent because you're a kid and too stupid to understand a game versus real life. They worship jocks, their glory days was high school, and for the past 40 years they've been waiting to die because literally the last time they looked forward to anything was before you were born.