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And yet that 8 year old child was left with a phone. At some point the adults in the room need to take some responsibility. It’s okay to tell your friends that you think it’s inappropriate for an 8 year old to be left alone with a phone at a social gathering.

I recently sent a postcard to a friend. She posted about it on Instagram (which I rarely check), but I didn’t get a personal message from her letting me know that she had received it. When I saw her in person I joked about her Instagram addiction, and told her how it made me feel. She’s a good friend, she understood, problem resolved.

There’s always been corporations fighting to take as much as they can from us, whether it’s by selling us cigarettes, trying to scam us on the phone, or presenting us with dopaminergic ad feeds. That’s what they are meant to do, by design.

We share the responsibility to educate our children, family, friends, push for new legislation, create new social taboos. The opportunities to rectify this bad direction won’t be handed to us; we have to create them. Complaining about the good old days is easy but accomplishes nothing (and they weren’t nearly as good as we think to begin with).