[endymi0n]

For my parents, having their own car was freedom, as their parents didn‘t have them when they were young.

For me, the internet is the world I discovered for myself, first in the age of BBSes and an early WWW before any of FAANG were even born.

For kids, how better to make a difference than having none of the consumer devices that everyone including their parents carries around.

Kids need to make a difference, as we all did. It‘s in our genes and we better learn from them.

[teekert]

Seems like most kids today (10-20?) are not making that difference, instead the are "hooked" (I'm saying hooked like a real cynical old parent) into social apps like we never were, "manipulated" on unprecedented scale. If your theory holds, their children might turn against that.

[nostrademons]

I think this goes down to generation that were in high school when Snapchat came out (14 in 2013, so today's 20-year-olds). The generation currently in high school is much more moderate and circumspect about their technology use. Among my friends' middle-schoolers, they tend to use technology much more as a tool (learning to program is apparently now standard practice in late elementary school) and less as a way of life, and they value their privacy much more highly.

Possibly not coincidentally, that's the generation boundary: the divide between Millenials and Homelanders is usually placed between 1998 and 2001, based on whether you're old enough to have living memories of the time before 9/11. The first children born after 9/11 are entering college this month. It makes sense that the generation that grew up in the pervasive culture of fear since then would look at technology not through the lens of "How can this connect me to the rest of generally-benevolent humanity?" but through the lens of "How can this be used against me?"

[dvfjsdhgfv]

> "How can this be used against me?"

And rightly so. Kids I observe learned well from our mistakes and they know better than giving away their real data, posting their photos etc. I was stunned to hear from a 10-year old "but this review is obviously fake, anyone can write what they want on the internet to trick you into buying something." I guess they're better prepared to deal with the digital world.

[bluGill]

> Seems like most kids today (10-20?) are not making that difference, instead

You realize that every generation has said that about the previous one? The details of what they are complaining about change slightly, but the attitude is universal to all generations.

[dnh44]

Not that it makes any difference to your point but one of the A’s was born in 1976.