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Generalyes, Jimmy, the robots are coming for us, and your nightmares are normal Pin
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Generalwhat happens when the kids who grow up in the 'metaverse' grow up ? Pin
BillWoodruff2-Nov-21 9:45
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Kids: screen time ... what do you do with your children ? [^]

i made the choice to not have children in this life long ago, but, i have wondered, if i were a parent, now, what i would, or wouldn't, do in terms of controlling/modulating a child's computer/internet use. i think back to my childhood where i spent so much time. alone, reading books ... rather than playing sports, or hanging out with peers ... i was known as 'bookworm.'

In many ways, for child and young teen me, characters in books were as real as my peers ... something i learned to use socially to get attention Smile | :) Fortunately, in those years (late 1940's to early 1960's), they didn't have school psychologists.

i'm surrounded by people (Thais) who are so immersed in using the internet for constant-contact socializing, gaming, etc., that i experience them as "altered steaks" who are less aware of environmental clues, non-verbal communication, etc. And, i am sure they experience me as an "odd alien" whose even odder because he doesn't have a mobile with a camera, or internet, and, for being able to make jokes, use puns in Thai.

cheers, past-his-use-by-date bill
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch

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