(09-27-2023, 03:40 AM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: ...
It would be interesting (fun?) to take a group of GenZ'ers who saturate themselves daily online and another group of GenZ'ers who don't much use the Internet (or at all) nor TV and put them all in the same room. Their charter is to discuss among themselves solutions to problems. The problems are written on the whiteboard. Any fighting will be dealt with severe (non-physical) punishment.
I did this with my daughter one summer after she turned 16 (6 grueling weeks worth with no Internet, no TV, no phones, no friends) and she came out a whole other person, for the better. Kicked most of her old clique friends to the curb when she returned and graduated HS at the top of her class. Course, that's only one person vice a very large population of GenZ. (~68 million in the U.S.)
I told my work associates back in 2008 that this device (smartphone) is going to doom humanity. They looked at me like I was some alien lunatic.
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I used to take the phones away from the kids at work. They were a security risk because all phones have cameras in them these days, and it was part of my job to relieve folks of their phones because of that. You'd have thought I was pulling their teeth without benefit of anesthesia!
I actually had one guy say "can't you just beat the hell out of me and let me keep the phone instead?". I looked at him long and funny, that awkward pause kinda thing, and then said "what are you? Some kind of commie spy? Gimme that damned phone! If I have to take it from you, I guarantee it's going to get somewhat damaged!"
Kids these days! I'm pretty sure they'd rather take a beating than give up their smart phones, tablets, and whatnots. So it's probably a good cal to specify "non-physical" punishments for infractions.