| These young people are addicted to their phones and snapchat. Later on in life, when they 'grow out' of snapchat, they will replace the addiction with something else - some other app, but also food, drugs or sex. Whatever thing they will find interesting, they will pursue it with the same pattern that they learn with these apps / games. This future generation will have to find a way to live with all this addictive technology and survive in the real world. Might well be that Snapchat (and others) will be looked at as we're now looking at cigarettes. |
Teens go through this phase. They're time-rich, money-poor and have few commitments and obligations. In the 70s and 80s they spent the time at an arcade becoming savant-level good at pacman or asteroids or whatever. A natural part of leaving your teens is slowly inheriting a bunch of obligations that you must meet (bills, employment, etc.) which take away the free time you had to utterly saturate yourself in whatever hobbies you had, and thus you become more selective in what sinks you plough your time into (and the depth of those sinks).
This is no worse than what any other generation went through. There'll be outliers of whatever time sinks in any generation. Don't sweat it.