[jamiek88]

You deffo have something there, we do ossify if we aren’t careful or we aren’t naturally childlike (Feynman type curiosity), but I think it’s also true that acceleration is happening.

I mean that’s pretty objective.

In my own lifetime (only in my 40’s!) social norms and expectations have rapidly changed as has the constant sense of urgency injected into the zeitgeist by profit making 24hr news and social media.

Propaganda was something you read about in history books (naively) not something you were bombarded with constantly by both anti and pro political positions.

When teens went home they had relief from social pressure now they are never, ever, alone with their thoughts.

Fall asleep clutching their iPhones wake up to 100 missed messages.

Ever seen a normally popular teens phone light up? I got a sense of panic and said ‘what’s wrong? What’s happened?’ And they just looked at me weird. What? This is normal?

My phone only blows up like that when there is a disaster!

[ghaff]

I have a minimum of notifications turned on. I'll sometimes be in a work group chat for a customer meeting or something. But otherwise push notification traffic is pretty low. And sometimes I'm polling a lot but I can turn that off.

[balaji1]

wish all the teens (and adults, at least the adults) were so intentional and in control. Most most most people are really not in control over their phone use; no one can deny that.

[jamiek88]

Me too but my mental well being doesn’t require constant contact and social communication.

In fact it depends on the opposite.