wonka
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@innsaneink said:
sweet town bike
Technology / Social Decline
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sweet town bike
BMX crew checking in.
Those were the days….
However I think they're over.
It's all about iPads, drones and social media.
It's a damn shame.
Embarassing.
I know some kids that don't go outside at all over the weekend.
Minecraft, call of duty and youtube all weekend.
BRB..... no childhood memories for them.
Those were the days….
However I think they're over.
It's all about iPads, drones and social media.
It's a damn shame.
Embarassing.
I know some kids that don't go outside at all over the weekend.
Minecraft, call of duty and youtube all weekend.
BRB..... no childhood memories for them.
happy_tiger
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@Milky said:
Nah Milky , Catholic College
Tim Sheens
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@innsaneink said:
My dragster didn't come with the option shown there.
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newtiger
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A few years ago I took my son and one of his friends to the cricket, both the boys in the back seat chatting to each other on Facebook while the other boys father and myself talked all the way.
Some younger people will not know how to talk face to face in years to come.
Some younger people will not know how to talk face to face in years to come.
happy_tiger
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@Milky said:
$550 Milky
How is chrome book seen by others ??
happy_tiger
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@Milky said:
Is chrome book the direction that we will be heading in the future
I don't really want to have my kids relying on chrome book for 6 years and then have to change again when they go to Uni ( if they go to Uni )
The school swears by it , but I'm already questioning the school and its methods ….. :brick:
Byron_Bay_Fan
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I recently went to a wedding or funeral in the Philippines and was shocked at the hundreds of youth using their mobile phones in church, probably more interesting than the sermon. I was surprised that it was allowed. That is the place where the priests on viewing low cut wedding gowns proclaim "Christ what a body" instead "The body of Christ".
Born in 1981, grew up in a small town in the Hunter Valley before the PC and cotton wool "my child is special'' peanut allergy era of today.
I found a random quote on a forum that Ive attached below. Sums it all up perfectly for people aged 30+ today. It was the kids of the 80s and very early 90's that saw the paradigm shift from playing in the streets as our parents did to being introduced to technology that children of today take for granted and comes as second nature, my friends kids are toddlers and they are playing on ipads and mobile phones as though they are another appendage. I didnt get a mobile phone until late 2000, I was nearly 20 and one of the first among my mates to have one. In tones of shock and horror Milky mentions above that he didnt get a phone until year nine which is about 14 years old, my god!
I wish my future children could have the same up bringing I had, im sure its all relative and my parents probably thought the same about me as a kid, wishing id put down the commodore 64 joystick and got out of the house more.
This is the anonymous quote -
"I was BORN in the 80’s. We are the last generation who learned to play in the street, we are the 1st who played console video games, we were the last to record songs off the radio on cassettes, we are the pioneers of walkmans and chatrooms. We learned how to program the VCR before anyone else, play with the Atari, Megadrive and Super Nintendo and believed in what the internet could be. We are the generation of riding our bikes around town all day with no helmets, swimming in the local rivers with no sun shirt and hat but plenty of fluoro zinc, a generation of skipping and double dutch at lunchtime and being king of the playground just because we held ace in handball. We are the generation of the Power Rangers, Ninja Turtles, Saved By The Bell and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, we traveled in cars without air bags, lived without mobile phones, we didn’t have flat screens, surround sound, ipods, Facebook, twitter, & computers, but nevertheless we had an AWESOME time"
Sums my childhood up perfectly. My weekends were spent mucking around with my mates, playing Saturday morning cricket or footy, depending on the season and fitting a sneaky video game session in after I nagged mum enough to let me have use of the 1 TV in the house.
I found a random quote on a forum that Ive attached below. Sums it all up perfectly for people aged 30+ today. It was the kids of the 80s and very early 90's that saw the paradigm shift from playing in the streets as our parents did to being introduced to technology that children of today take for granted and comes as second nature, my friends kids are toddlers and they are playing on ipads and mobile phones as though they are another appendage. I didnt get a mobile phone until late 2000, I was nearly 20 and one of the first among my mates to have one. In tones of shock and horror Milky mentions above that he didnt get a phone until year nine which is about 14 years old, my god!
I wish my future children could have the same up bringing I had, im sure its all relative and my parents probably thought the same about me as a kid, wishing id put down the commodore 64 joystick and got out of the house more.
This is the anonymous quote -
"I was BORN in the 80’s. We are the last generation who learned to play in the street, we are the 1st who played console video games, we were the last to record songs off the radio on cassettes, we are the pioneers of walkmans and chatrooms. We learned how to program the VCR before anyone else, play with the Atari, Megadrive and Super Nintendo and believed in what the internet could be. We are the generation of riding our bikes around town all day with no helmets, swimming in the local rivers with no sun shirt and hat but plenty of fluoro zinc, a generation of skipping and double dutch at lunchtime and being king of the playground just because we held ace in handball. We are the generation of the Power Rangers, Ninja Turtles, Saved By The Bell and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, we traveled in cars without air bags, lived without mobile phones, we didn’t have flat screens, surround sound, ipods, Facebook, twitter, & computers, but nevertheless we had an AWESOME time"
Sums my childhood up perfectly. My weekends were spent mucking around with my mates, playing Saturday morning cricket or footy, depending on the season and fitting a sneaky video game session in after I nagged mum enough to let me have use of the 1 TV in the house.
Tigerdave
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Born in '72, grew up on computers in the 80s, but every generation thinks things were better way back when, than the current generation. I'll take new tech and medical advances.
foreveratiger
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@Dingo said:
Great post Dingo
It pretty much sums me up aswell as this was my era.
Welcome to the Forum mate.
supercoach
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@Milky said:
One of the major private schools has just pulled all laptops out of the class room. They said that the students had lost the ability to write,spell and commit information to memory. Some people might say that these skills are not needed anymore but I think it is a great move as we want to develop intelligence rather than rely on the intelligence of a device. The computer is a fantastic tool for all sorts of things, but it should only be used as a tool
Social media and progression of technology has created a generation of hedonistic, socially undeveloped passive aggressives. The sort of kids who won't look you in the eye when you talk to them but will threaten to rape you with a knife over Facebook.
It's not just social media though, the world has changed for the worse. Most families have both parents working, leaving kids to their own devices and missing that discipline that may have ordinarily been meted out if one of the parents at home. Conversely, a lot of parents don't let their kids out of their sight any more either because of more widely reported advanced on kids and have an inflated sense of innocence about their kids.
It's not just social media though, the world has changed for the worse. Most families have both parents working, leaving kids to their own devices and missing that discipline that may have ordinarily been meted out if one of the parents at home. Conversely, a lot of parents don't let their kids out of their sight any more either because of more widely reported advanced on kids and have an inflated sense of innocence about their kids.
supercoach
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Its funny the world is ever changing and some change is great and other change is not so great. I remember my Dad saying TV is doing the kids a lot of harm, they should be out running around and night the family should sit around the table and talk. Now we are saying computers and social media are doing the same…What will it be in 15 years???
Sadly you can not halt change
Sadly you can not halt change
Kids may have changed , but the biggest shift is in parenting. We are all largely products of our environment and yes we are in the computer age but I am yet to have ever come across a four/five year old who can independently walk in to a shop and buy an eyepad - however have seen plenty in establishments that years ago were designed for adults to socialise in, but now are littered with children transfixed on a small screen designed to keep them from socialising.
happy_tiger
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The only thing the kids can't use is Wikipaedia at the kids school
They have to search properly for all info
And its amazing when you tell kids what really happened
The one thing I been trying to push with my son is to ask himself what he believes
They had just been studying about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and I asked him based on what he learnt whether it was right or wrong and why did he believe that ??
Then gave him some extra info that the Americans had told everyone after the bombings
They have to search properly for all info
And its amazing when you tell kids what really happened
The one thing I been trying to push with my son is to ask himself what he believes
They had just been studying about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and I asked him based on what he learnt whether it was right or wrong and why did he believe that ??
Then gave him some extra info that the Americans had told everyone after the bombings
@happy tiger said:
You ased him wha…?
happy_tiger
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Trying to get him to form his own opinions
Use his brain in other words Geo
FT can you explain what I mean to Geo , I can't dumb it down anymore
Use his brain in other words Geo
FT can you explain what I mean to Geo , I can't dumb it down anymore
