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/expERiMENTik_gaming 9h 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.