Poll: The new generation of children.

[Jzolr0708]

There are 11 year old friends of ym sister who have better phones than me and their own laptops. I am jealous

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Whenever I see a kid under the age of 13 talking their ass off on a cell phone, I get this urge to break the phone and punch them in the face. Is it just me?

No, it's not just you.
I hate it too.

Yea. More so if they're acting cool and not ringing their parents or something.

Edit: I was 14 for my first phone and I got along fine. The only problem with over-digital kids is that when society crashes and burns around them they won't be able to do anything.

As for keeping kids of the internet Kuhul I couldnt agree more, my 11 year old neice has be caught looking at porn more than once, Im completly baffeled by it! I say kids should only be aloud on the internet while supervised, and only for school research, not alone in their room where they can look at anything.

WHAT THE FUCK? Firstly, that's stupidly young. Secondly, She's a girl!

Justt.. WTF?

Same here, 14. I might still be under 18, but I was so angry when i was 12 and kids in my grade had the fanciest phones ever, AND a laptop.

 

[Beffudled Sheep]

What bothers me is that 8-year-olds seem to be dressing like whores today, letalone the technology.

Oh and this also angers me to the point of violent thoughts against the kids parents.
You should of seem my friends 8 yr old daughter before I gave her a healthy dose of decent parenting.

 

[hopeneverdies]

Just last year my 9 year old cousin was making fun of my old cellphone because it wasn't new enough, an SCP-300, pretty much the last Sprint phone design made before they got real names. 9, he doesn't need one. Of course it goes even farther back to when everyone else had phones slightly better than my old SCP and I was made fun of for having a Nokia Tracfone because I had a lot of afterschool stuff. Cmon it calls people and Snake II is free. I had to switch to the 300 because it was too expensive to just buy a phone card all the time. But then I had to switch to my new phone when the 300 decided to not hold a charge when calling or connecting to the internet. Its a Katana LX, not the most advanced one, but its functional.
If you're under 13 and you really don't need it, what's the point of having a phone? Then again people in my school seem to get an upgrade every 2 months. Hah, I am counter cultured to tech.

 

[L33tsauce_Marty]

Kids were much happier back in the old days, running around in the woods, playing, and generally being kids. Treating them like mini-adults and letting them have all the electronic stuff means they're missing out.

Phht. I live in Florida, what the hell do I have here?

 

[darkless]

Yes theya re add in the fact that 90% of them seem to be as thick as planks and we have an upcoming doomsday on our hands.

 

[Spleeni]

What bothers me is that 8-year-olds seem to be dressing like whores today, letalone the technology.

A few generations ago, showing your stockings was scandalous. Nowadays mini-skirts are all the rage. It's a combination of things though. The feminist movement and the natural one-uping of our elders. Us young-uns are always pushing limits. Soon enough, things will balance out, when the girls get chilly enough.

 

[DarthHK]

Kids were much happier back in the old days, running around in the woods, playing, and generally being kids. Treating them like mini-adults and letting them have all the electronic stuff means they're missing out.

Phht. I live in Florida, what the hell do I have here?

Loads of whores on the beaches way out of your league?

Honestly, though, speaking as one of the "little bastards" myself, I'll just say that nobody really needs a damn cell phone, unless they're hitmen and the like. (Want to talk to your friends in the middle of class? Do what I do. Be inconspicuous about it!) I'm fine with MP3 players as, often the only sleep I get is drifting in and out of consciousness during those few precious minutes I'm on the bus accompanied by Led Zeppelin. 'Sides have you ever considered the fact that maybe I despised sports as a little munchkin because every other kid was a complete asshat? There's about half a dozen of those asshats vandalizing some poor sod's property right now. Which do you think is a better way to spend time?

 

[Nova Tendril]

My little brother plays a DS. Does that mean he's consumed by electronics?

Of course not. He regularly plays outside with the neighbors (however they are obnoxious brats) and does what would be considered "normal" for a young child. The problem isn't technology, the problem is parents who just use technology to occupy their children rather than spend time with them.

I have no idea how any child could be using a cell phone. I don't even have one of the bloody things yet, though that is probably because I have no one to talk to on them.

 

[soren7550]

The young people of today need to get out in the sun & grass more often. Also, they need to read up some more.

For example: Yesterday in my history class, we watched the Normandy beach invasion part of Saving Private Ryan. As soon as the movie starts (w/ a elderly Private Ryan walking around the memorial site)They. Would. Not. Stop. Asking. QUESTIONS!!!!!!!!! I sweat to christ, they were asking the dumbest shit you can think of!
A sample of what they asked:
[seeing the opening bit of S.P.R.]Is this Normandy battle?
Why's the old guy sad?
Why are they in boats?
How come they're shooting them?
Did they save Ryan yet?
They're going to be eating by sharks now right?
Why doesn't the guy tell the man who's dragging him that he's dead?
Why does he have no arm?

And these people are seventeen!!!SEVENTEEN!!! For christ sake, it's WWII! Even retarded six year olds know this! If they ever took their heads out of their asses and dragged their eyes away from the sidekicks, they might actually learn something useful. (afterwards, the teacher decided to never do this again due to my classes' stupidity.)

 

[Woundingisfun]

The young people of today need to get out in the sun & grass more often. Also, they need to read up some more.

For example: Yesterday in my history class, we watched the Normandy beach invasion part of Saving Private Ryan. As soon as the movie starts (w/ a elderly Private Ryan walking around the memorial site)They. Would. Not. Stop. Asking. QUESTIONS!!!!!!!!! I sweat to christ, they were asking the dumbest shit you can think of!
A sample of what they asked:
[seeing the opening bit of S.P.R.]Is this Normandy battle?
Why's the old guy sad?
Why are they in boats?
How come they're shooting them?
Did they save Ryan yet?
They're going to be eating by sharks now right?
Why doesn't the guy tell the man who's dragging him that he's dead?
Why does he have no arm?

And these people are seventeen!!!SEVENTEEN!!! For christ sake, it's WWII! Even retarded six year olds know this! If they ever took their heads out of their asses and dragged their eyes away from the sidekicks, they might actually learn something useful. (afterwards, the teacher decided to never do this again due to my classes' stupidity.)

I have to agree with you that this was quite, no really dumb, if these people really were 17. But I dont think that 6 year olds are old enough to understand any of the World Wars nor at all watch that movie. I do not really see how this is entiteled to kids not having a childhood, but only that your classmates are a bunch of social rejects.

Anyway, to those who want kids to have computers in class. I have one. It distracts me as hell. If kids are only equipped with computers, just imagine how DUMB they are going to get, for I am 16 years old and I, as all of my classmates, have a computer which we have been given by the school. I watch so many of my class screwing schoolwork and just hanging around on Facebook or Myspace or whatever. Is this really how we want 8 year olds to be?

 

[Cowabungaa]

My little brother plays a DS. Does that mean he's consumed by electronics?

Of course not. He regularly plays outside with the neighbors (however they are obnoxious brats) and does what would be considered "normal" for a young child. The problem isn't technology, the problem is parents who just use technology to occupy their children rather than spend time with them.

I have no idea how any child could be using a cell phone. I don't even have one of the bloody things yet, though that is probably because I have no one to talk to on them.

You hit the nail on the head here. Kids are kids, parents are there to guide and protect them. Kids can't be in control of their lives, they're just kids. Not grown up, can't make decisions, can't plan ahead, things like that. And that's what parents are for, but it seems that the current generation of parents fails to do that. I heard someone calling them the "I can't say no" generation of parents, and I think that (again) hits the nail straight on the head. A girlfriend of mine, 15 years old, her parents don't mind her smoking for 2 years, her parents don't mind her drinking herself shitless, her parents don't do anything. It's not the kids I want to punch in the face so much, they're just kids (to some agree, when you're 15 you should at least know sómething), but their parents deserve a proper beating.

 

[Sewblon]

Letting children access electronic devices is not intrinsically wrong and probably won't destroy their childhood but they don't need any of that stuff. Children are more resilient then we give them credit for.

 

[Inverse Skies]

It's the way technology is going I'm afraid, there's not much we can do about it except learn to adapt to the new challenges it poses. Every generation worries about the next and usually it doesn't amount to much.

 

[Abedeus]

At the age of 5, I had only a DOS-PC and a SNES, which is actually my sister's.

I mean, I got my first Gameboy Color when I was 8... Then Gameboy Advanced, because I couldn't run better games.

Once in a while I have my PC updated, and the only other piece of technology I got was a MP3 player I got for a perfect 6.0 average (the max) when I was in Elementary School, then MP4 a year ago (for my own allowance, costed me a bundle). Now I'm getting a Nintendo DS (it's been a week since I've purchased it and it's still not in my hands...) AGAIN for my own allowance (I had to resign from buying few cool games or a new CPU) and for money from my old GPU.


So yes, even I say they have too many things. Even some of those 6-7 year olds have a better cellphone than me.

 

[Tech Team FTW!]

My nostalgia sense is tingling...
Anyway, it is up to parents to be responsible for their own offspring. If a parent decides to give their child a phone it is the parent's choice. If a parent locks their kid an a box for 10 years, then maybe you have a problem...
I beleive kids can have fun with phones and iPods, much more fun than having a pet rock at least. Being constantly connected to your friends is only a problem when you don't like your friends, in which case you can just ditch 'em. As for parents having too much control over their children, I think we all went through the stage where we saw our parents as overbearing megalomaniacs, irrelevent of phones.

 

[Mattersmasher]

This is a tricky one. On the one hand, kids need to know about current technology as it is inextricably part of life - I'm currently unemployed and virtually every job requires PC literacy and has an online application form - but on the other, I think that in this, the 'communications age' the convenience and overwhelming disposability of technology is not going to teach kids the value of things.
If you illegally download a movie or MP3 then you are going to attach no value to it, so it becomes throwaway, if you have a free phone upgrade every year, then that too is disposable. If you can contact your friends from anywhere at any time without any human interaction, then maybe relationships of any depth become less important too, on this I'm not sure.
I was a real 'stay indoors' type of kid, glued to my AMIGA A1200 for days on end, but my folks always dragged me out for long walks and visits to country parks and houses, museums and places of interest. Sure at the time I resented it (damn them taking me away from Alien Breed!) but when I hit my late teens I was nothing but grateful for what they did.
I worry that the later generations will have no idea of the value of things, no dirt under the nails so to speak. I already know kids who seem to think hamburgers are spontaneously generated and that potatoes come pre-chipped from the magic white cupboard. It worrys me more that there will be a blank acceptance of technology without a question of how it works.

 

[sneak_copter]

Whenever I see a kid under the age of 13 talking their ass off on a cell phone, I get this urge to break the phone and punch them in the face. Is it just me?

Definitley not you. Especially on a bus. When I'm with mates. AT FOUR IN THE MORNING. What the hell are kids doing out that late?

Anyway, I won't say that keeping kids from technology will do any good, as almost everything in these times require at least some technological equipment to do. Cooking, Washing, Cleaning, Traveling, Entertaining hell, even Sleeping!

However, giving kids £400 mobiles and a laptop they don't know how to use is f*cking ridiculous.

 

[DalekJaas]

The new generation of children is rude and obese.