Generational Tech Attitudes

Not if you ask the younger generation

that's the thing with the younger generations, they don't have the baggage of lessons learned from yore!

Young people may think differently.

While we will never return to the pre-social-media days, perhaps the infatuation had faded. The current generation entering their teens has never really known a time without it. There's no real novelty to it. The distinction between mindless time wasting and real usefulness may be more clear.

Not knowing a world without these things might just as well be a reason for upcoming youngsters to view our current mentality as "old-fashioned". And we all know how much youngsters hate old fashioned stuff. They might not want to step into our shoes; maybe they will be more conscientious about things we are currently not at all interested in.

Because the "kids these days" took over :)

Or maybe you are getting older. Ask the teens and other young people around, they seem quite in the zone and satisfied with whatever we have nowadays.

Surely that is for people near your age not your parent's generation.

Younger generations interpret it differently.

I think it's not so much that you're not "hip," but you aren't concerned about the minutia most kids are nowadays. My 2nd cousin told me recently he hated reading in school because "there was no sound." It was incredibly eye opening to me to see how starkly different growing up between us was. Not that I'm some enlightened millennial, but often in the earlier days of the internet, reading and images were all we had. Now as a more tech inclined individual,