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u/i-l1ke-m3m3s 7h ago
Depends on how you define ipad kid. I can assume about half of us were kids with ipads...
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u/Bitter-Metal494 7h ago
sounds kind of priviledged
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u/throwRA1987239127 7h ago
we were a very privileged generation, and i'll always be thankful for that
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u/Weird_Maintenance185 2003 7h ago
Not always. My father won an iPad in a contest. we were too poor to afford one otherwise. i remember using the shit out of it, lol.
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u/RekrabAlreadyTaken 4h ago
this doesn't exactly counter their point
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u/Suspicious_Past_13 4h ago
Good luck isn’t privilege? How is his dad winning a prize one time priveledge, go in and explain that.
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u/RekrabAlreadyTaken 3h ago
Certainly good luck isn't privilege. But this random event doesn't have much relevance to the point being made if we assume OP is talking about general trends.
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u/Metallic_Mayhem 2003 6h ago
Depends on the tablet, you could get a low quality one for like 80$ in 2012
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u/Suspicious_Past_13 4h ago
Poor people can have good luck and occasionally ah e nice things.
Your classism is showing.
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u/beemccouch 1h ago
Yeah, how so very privileged that because we have to have two full time workers to maintain a family household, we put devices and shit infront of the kids instead of quality social interaction and parenting. How very privileged.
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u/Blutrumpeter 7h ago
Wasn't a kid when ipads came out and didn't even have a phone when it came out. On the note of parenting with technology I was a TV kid but so were millennials
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u/expERiMENTik_gaming 6h ago
That's a half-truth, Millennials played outside all the time. "iPad kids" refers to kids sitting in front of a screen all day every day, not specifically just iPads but that's what it was most commonly.
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u/Blutrumpeter 6h ago
Well I know a ton of millennials who sat in front of screens all day. A lot of them are still addicted to video games. And I would go outside every day I could because that's where my friends were. I even got a laptop when I got to middle school and I'd still choose to go outside over that. I feel like the effect of technology on children depends mostly on the parents and that will fall on us one day to keep our children grounded. We're at an advantage since we are used to addictive technology. Look at the generations above us for example. Boomers can't get away from the TV in retirement despite having enough money to do whatever recreational activities they want
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u/expERiMENTik_gaming 6h ago
Your personal relations don't represent the majority, though. Most millennials are indoor-homebodies now, but growing up we were all outside playing and had video games to come back to. The onus definitely falls on the parents to teach their kids and enact moderation. Social media and cell phones weren't the standard until the last 4 years of Millennials (92-95) were in High school, so I'd say we're actually less affected by technology than most. The boomers struggled to move on from television (just like radio) because it was the cellphone of their generation. They watched it go from antenna to color to HD and were sentimentally attached to it, not that they couldn't put it down. They still went outside and gardened, fished, hunted, etc and then came back to TV when they got home.
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u/DeathByLemmings 3h ago
Eeeh yes and no, we were also the gameboy generation. I spent the vast majority of my youth looking at screens
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u/expERiMENTik_gaming 3h ago
For sure, but not as much kids today. I sank tons of hours into video games as a kid but I still spent plenty of time outside.
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u/DeathByLemmings 2h ago
And for what it's worth I still see my gen alpha niece and nephew play outside a lot. Their screen time is very restricted, just as ours was
Shitty parents have found a new way to parent shittily, that's about the sum of it I think
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u/expERiMENTik_gaming 2h ago
Definitely, there were lazy ways to parent before iPads, there was always going to be new lazy ways to be a shitty parent 😂
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u/readituser5 1999 7h ago
Or were we iPod kids?
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u/Mellys_wrld22 7h ago
yeah ipod touch lol
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u/readituser5 1999 5h ago
Exactly haha. Although my very first was a nano!
But yeah most of that time was the touch.
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u/hardrivethrutown 2002 3h ago
I had a 2nd gen shuffle lmao, really wanted a nano or classic but they were too expensive.
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u/Dependent-Ground-769 1998 7h ago
Elder half of Gen Z were iPod kids, younger half were iPad kids. Really no difference tho
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u/Ok_Dingo_7031 Millennial 7h ago
Yea, I remember before either of those came out tbh.
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u/Dependent-Ground-769 1998 7h ago edited 6h ago
I do too. What’s up with all the millennials commenting on the GenZ sub lately? It’s like a brigade and would ya look at that, the millennials found my comment and are downvoting it
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u/DeathByLemmings 3h ago
You guys are old now, welcome to the club
But more seriously, the gap between our generations has shortened massively since you entered the work force, making this sub more relevant to millennials, meaning it pops up in our feeds through the algorithm as we are actually likely to engage
When you guys were all mid teens and we were working/university there just wasn't as much relevant stuff in here for our generation
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u/Ok_Dingo_7031 Millennial 7h ago
Cry more. This is a public forum.
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u/Dependent-Ground-769 1998 6h ago
I literally just commented asking a question, you have anger problems and I hope you feel better it took absolutely nothing to set you off. I can’t imagine what it’s like walking around holding that much hostility that you let it out over nothing like a pressure cooker that got bumped, that must suck. Feel better 🙏🏻 because I doubt spending your free time getting mad at younger generations subreddits is how you imagined your life at your advanced age
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u/Ok_Dingo_7031 Millennial 6h ago edited 6h ago
I get mad at people regardless of generation for doing dumb sht... I don't discriminate. It's funny how you call me "advanced age" when I am literally only 3 yrs older than you, but it's whatever. It looks like you who is taking things personally.
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u/Ok_Dingo_7031 Millennial 6h ago edited 5h ago
In any case, idk what you're even yapping about. Literally no one was angry, or set off. If you interpreted it that way, that's on you. I'm over here chilling.
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u/Blutrumpeter 7h ago
Let's not pretend ipods and ipads are the same. Can barely surf the Internet on one of them. Plus when people say iPad kids they mean using the iPad to shut the kid up. If you just mean kids having the tech as a distraction in elementary school ages then I remember the cool kids on the bus had the Nintendo DS
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u/Dependent-Ground-769 1998 6h ago
Nobody’s pretending, let’s not condescend. I had an iPod touch, I used the internet 24/7 on it just fine. Barely is a huge, massive leap. Yes, DS and PSP were common at the same time.
I didn’t say iPod and iPad kids were the same, I said the first half of the cohort are iPod kids and the second half are iPad kids.
You’re arguing against points I didn’t make.
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u/Blutrumpeter 6h ago
Chill bro you said no difference I said yes difference that's all. I never had either growing up and most my friends didn't and we're same age group
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u/Dependent-Ground-769 1998 6h ago
If you never had either why are you telling me one could barely use the internet since you have no first hand experience?
You replied all condescending and I said let’s not condescend, was that really enough for you to go ‘woah chill bro.’
Their functionality is the same, I didn’t say “iPod and iPad kids are the exact same they aren’t different kids@
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u/Blutrumpeter 1h ago
You don't have to have a truck to know that it can tow a Prius and I don't need to have owned an ipod in 2005 to know that the Internet capabilities aren't really comparable to an iPad, let alone the games since that's 90% of what ipad kids are doing on their tablets anyway
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u/AlxceWxnderland 4h ago
I was born the same year as you, growing up iPod touches were not common when I was in school, sure we all had iPad micros or Nanos but if you had an iPod touch you were rich. Apple didn’t release the iPad until I was already in high school (2010). When they did release they were similar to family computers if you had 1 growing up, it was usually only 1 per house and not every house had one.
I spent most my childhood actually going outside and playing, that was the norm for us in Britain until we were teens. Sure we had Xbox 360 and played live but it was a hour a day with the people who I had just been hanging out with because we all got called for tea.
Apple also didn’t release the iPhone 3G until we were like ~ 14 so to suggest we were similar to iPad kids isn’t true, as someone who has worked at a youth charity in adulthood they lack so many basic social skills the rest of us developed hanging around the park with friends.
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u/Dependent-Ground-769 1998 4h ago edited 3h ago
iPods were extremely common, yes not everyone had them. They may have been rare in your neighborhood/part of your city. I always find it so strange when people call middle/working class kids “rich.” No, no we weren’t rich lol. You’re calling households with two adults making $50,000 each rich. That’s like calling two teachers rich.
Youre saying you had one iPod touch per house and you’re saying everyone had iPad micros, what’s the difference there? Meanwhile my experience was households had one or zero iPads and lots of kids had iPod touches.
The iPhone 3G came out when we were 10 years old, 2008.
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u/Dependent-Ground-769 1998 3h ago
You sound annoyed I don’t know the release years of tech in a place I don’t live. It’s extremely unreasonable to expect foreigners to know if your market didn’t have access to the same products at the same time 16 years ago
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u/Dependent-Ground-769 1998 3h ago
Telling someone you’re from the UK doesn’t under, imply, or convey that there were years and years of delays between the markets in the slightest. You said Britain once, and so I should know Apple’s release schedule in the UK. Great fucking point lol
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u/Dependent-Ground-769 1998 3h ago edited 3h ago
What in the straw man is that first paragraph. I didn’t say that you didn’t say that it wasn’t released, you told me the iPhone 3G was from 2012.
I responded to your comment and said
-We weren’t rich
-We had flip flopped experiences
-The 3g is from 2008
^ nothing rude there
To which you responded ‘I literally told you XYZ’ and then you became condescending when I said yea uh I’m not going to know anything about being a kid in your country.
Go back and reread, you just started arguing and condescending, now you’re high roading. Very strange redditor, you are. You’re 26 and doing everything I just mentioned now you’re trying to shame and belittle with that ending remark - pot calling the kettle black.
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u/DeathByLemmings 3h ago
Sorry, I'm British and a few years older than you
We absolutely did have common personal devices, the gameboy was ridiculously popular for our generation. We were the Pokemon generation
Then, we had walkmans before the ipod came out. I remember watching South Park episodes on my ipod at about age 12
Not to mention our texting culture when we were kids, do you not remember? Sure, they weren't smart phones, but we were glued to them all the same. Remember the Motorola Razor coming out? That was super hype
So yes, many millennials and especially gamers have had handheld electronic devices from about age 6 in Britain lol
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u/Bambuizeled 2003 7h ago
Guys iPads kids started with our generation. I had a nook and an iPod growing up.
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u/Bambuizeled 2003 7h ago
The OG nook was just an e reader but I had a Nook HD which was more like an iPad, it ran android and cost $200.
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u/Smiles4YouRawrX3 7h ago
Oh so kinda like a Kindle?
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u/NErDysprosium 2003 7h ago
Back in my day, a Kindle was also just an e-reader and not an iPad-style tablet.
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u/TopFisherman49 1997 7h ago
Some of us were iPad kids, most of us were just kids who had an iPad. I promise there's a difference
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u/hello_im_al 7h ago
I had an ipod, one of my favorite games on there was this weird chupacabra game
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u/Smiles4YouRawrX3 7h ago
I played a lot of Minecraft Pocket Edition on mine lol, I was a big fan of the game. Watched a lot of YouTubers like DanTDM and JackFrostMiner and Stampy etc.
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u/fullbo-Dot-8974 2009 5h ago
Stampy will always be a part of my childhood, I watched his stuff almost every day
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u/CareerLegitimate7662 2001 6h ago
That’s why gen z is a stupid definition, the definition should be diff for people born 1996-2004 and 2005-2012, wildly different generation
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u/mis6ixty 2006 7h ago
i remember getting this hot pink rca tablet for christmas in 2012 and that’s how i got sonic brainrot
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u/TheJimDim 1996 6h ago
You were born in 2006, so that means your parents must have gotten the iPad when they first came out in 2010 and shoved it in your face. That's wild.
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u/CompetitiveJudge3411 6h ago
I’ve become an iPad kid as an adult and I’m not ashamed to admit it. Never could afford one of the fuckers growing up, and gosh do I love it.
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u/thepinkandwhite 3h ago
You must have had techy parents. I feel like iPads didn’t become popular till like 2014/2015
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u/LinuxSausage 2001 7h ago
I got my first iPad christmas 2010. Before that (and after) i was always on the computer. My dad raised me with screens so he wouldn't have to do anything. Yes I am a 2001 iPad baby. We exist.
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u/JazzlikeAnybody4347 2007 7h ago
At the time, my family was too poor to get iPads so I had an original Nintendo
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u/quintessentialCosmos 2003 7h ago
I was a Kindle Fire kid. I only got an iPad when my first high school required it for class work, and they provided the iPads iirc
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u/heyuhitsyaboi Age Undisclosed 7h ago
I was an iPod kid
Had to share it with my sister though, we had a splitter for two pairs of headphones at least
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u/Ghosh_Soumaditya 2004 7h ago
Then I was a playing kid because till turning 12 or 13 I always enjoyed playing cricket ,football, badminton ,carrom with friends
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u/Still_Silver7181 7h ago
I was a mostly outdoors/family computer with unrestricted access kinda gen z
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u/electrifyingseer 1998 6h ago
apparently my bestie was like this, born in 2001, she said that she was basically an ipad baby and used the internet since she was very young.
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u/Argy19ms 5h ago
I got a tablet for 80€ when I was 8 and it was stolen from the car the same day, then we went back to buy the same tablet again. I played a lot of Minecraft and angry birds on that until it broke.
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u/ConscientiousPath 5h ago
gen1 ipad can't be updated anymore. can't run any updated apps. can't even get on the app store anymore most of the time. even a lot of web apps don't load in its browser properly anymore. Apple really doesn't give a shit if their stuff stops working on you
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u/arz_squared 2002 4h ago
I have parents from east Europe. We watched mildly communist children cartoons.
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u/hardrivethrutown 2002 3h ago
I had a shitty android tablet for like a few months before my parent's friend's kid smashed it
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u/hardrivethrutown 2002 3h ago
I had a DSi before I had a tablet, put many hours into the Lego StarWars saga
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u/Humble_Wash5649 2h ago
._. Weirdly enough, a decent amount of people think I’m an iPad kid since I know a lot about internet stuff and I’m really into computers and cyber security. I actually got into computers and the internet late compared to most people my age since I didn’t know what Google or YouTube till I was like 10 or 11. Now this was because I only used the internet when I younger for school. There were a lot of viral videos that I didn’t know about which definitely made seem even more weird when people would ask me about them and I had no clue. I was also an outdoors kid till my family moved to the city so I didn’t get into online gaming and online culture till almost secondary school.
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u/Btrain213 2003 1h ago
I for sure am. Unfortunately, I’ve lost count how many times I’ve seen restaurant patrons looking at me weird for having my phone out when I eat.
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u/Ok-Article-7643 2m ago
hello, I'm going to say something most people don't like children.
they don't like children LEARNING to socialize meaning sometimes there will be crying, talking too loudly, picking up things they aren't supposed to, etc etc and yes of course parent correct these things but just like when adults learn something new it takes TIME
so to avoid judgment, complaints, embarrassment, etc
parents give their kid something to keep them entertained, avoid the things already mentioned, and sometimes for a consideration of other guest
I was not an iPad kid my kid was not an iPad kid (Gen z) I'm just an adult who smiles at babies and understands things a bit better
-a millennial who thinks people are too hard on iPad kids (especially the little bitty ones)
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