Who else is so thankful they had a childhood before TECHNOLOGY TOOK OVER?

Hmmmmmm,on the one hand I see what the people who say yes are getting at.

And I'd be inclined to agree were it not for one thing.

As I see it the question effectively boils down to this:

When I was 10 years old would I have liked to have been able to spend the next 10 years of my life watching all manner of porn all day and masturbating about 3-4 hours a day every day as a result?To which the only honest answer I can give is .........GOD YES

Are are you suggesting we should restrict the internet for kids to be porn only? :cool:

Reply 21

Reue

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Original post by dire wolf

No, I wish I'd had the internet during my primary school days. It must be great to have most of the information in the world available to you when you're at your most inquisitive.

I found the encyclopedia contained more information than I could possibly digest at that age.

Reply 22

Puddles the Monkey

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Original post by dire wolf

No, I wish I'd had the internet during my primary school days. It must be great to have most of the information in the world available to you when you're at your most inquisitive.

Encyclopaedia Britannica CD Rom :cool:

Reply 23

moggis

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Hmmmmm,further to my previous post ,it's just dawned on me that actually I DID spend 3-4 hours a day masturbating at that age.

I simply forgot about my blatant misuse of the Littlewoods catalogue

Reply 24

username927016

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Yeah, I loved playing classic games such as like Monopoly, Operation, Guess Who, Cluedo, Frustration, Ludo & Snakes & Ladders, with family/relatives & also outside on the street playing football, red letter, duck duck goose, forty forty, hide & seek etc :moon:

then everyone grew up, times changed...

Reply 25

gr8wizard10

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technology is everything and makes the workforce mroe productive.

Reply 26

LavenderBlueSky88

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Tbh, having worked with kids for the last 3 summers their lives aren't much different. I mean, I was born in 88 and still grew up playing Sega and playstation... It's just now the technology is better. They still want to run around, play skipping, pretend to be dinosaurs or ponies... A lot of the boys would rather play with cars or a puzzle than on the Wii most of the time. Sure some kids are spoilt and given phones or ipads but that's the fault of the parents, not the technology.

I'm sure every generation before us has said the exact same thing.

Reply 27

username1398367

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Original post by Reue

I found the encyclopedia contained more information than I could possibly digest at that age.

Original post by Puddles the Monkey

Encyclopaedia Britannica CD Rom :cool:

i see that you both had privileged childhoods

The internet is like a billion EBs in one, all describing things differently; it's a far better tool for learning.

(edited 9 years ago)

Reply 28

Puddles the Monkey

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Original post by dire wolf

i see that you both had privileged childhoods

Parents got it cheap through work. :woo:

But yes, I feel very lucky about my upbringing :smile:

Reply 29

Reue

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Original post by dire wolf

i see that you both had privileged childhoods

For being able to read an encyclopedia in the local library?

Reply 30

KJane

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I'd class my childhood as being pretty 'technology free' too, but it's not as if the older generation weren't guilty of sticking some of us in front of the telly. A kid watching a cartoon on an ipad isn't that far removed from a TV, a game on a phone isn't that big of a jump away either.

There always seems to be a fear surrounding technology with every generation. Everything in moderation can be good, and technology can be a good educational tool for little ones as long as it's not taking the place of parenting.

Reply 31

SecretDuck

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Hell yes.

Back in my school days (gosh, I feel old when I say that :tongue:

), breaktimes consisted of football or cricket (depending on the season) and if it was raining outside, we had board games and we also tended to mess about. There were no smartphones at the time and the only decent games we could play are on the PC or consoles. And playing Spyro on my PS1 felt like an achievement.

Reply 32

username1398367

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Original post by Reue

For being able to read an encyclopedia in the local library?

Libraries had computers with internet access. Why read a single book, when the internet can cherry pick from all of the relevant data sources on the planet and put them all on a few webpages?

IDK, maybe I took the whole 'you need to look at things from multiple viewpoints to fully understand them' y2 history lesson a little too seriously lol.

Reply 33

Reue

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Original post by dire wolf

Libraries had computers with internet access.

Not in 1992 they didnt.

Reply 34

Tiger Rag

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Original post by SecretDuck

Hell yes.

Back in my school days (gosh, I feel old when I say that :tongue:

), breaktimes consisted of football or cricket (depending on the season) and if it was raining outside, we had board games and we also tended to mess about. There were no smartphones at the time and the only decent games we could play are on the PC or consoles. And playing Spyro on my PS1 felt like an achievement.

It was the same when I was at school. We did have Gameboys and I do remember the Pokemon craze.

Reply 35

SecretDuck

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Original post by OU Student

It was the same when I was at school. We did have Gameboys and I do remember the Pokemon craze.

Yeah, I loved the GB games but I loved the PS1/PC games even more :smile:

Reply 36

cole-slaw

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Original post by KJane

I'd class my childhood as being pretty 'technology free' too, but it's not as if the older generation weren't guilty of sticking some of us in front of the telly. A kid watching a cartoon on an ipad isn't that far removed from a TV, a game on a phone isn't that big of a jump away either.

There always seems to be a fear surrounding technology with every generation. Everything in moderation can be good, and technology can be a good educational tool for little ones as long as it's not taking the place of parenting.

yeah, but in the 80s and 90s we had one hour of kids tv a day, and that was your lot, you came in to watch it then went outside to run around again.

Nowadays its on 24/7, 365 days a year. No wonder kids get fatter every year.

Reply 37

KJane

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Original post by cole-slaw

yeah, but in the 80s and 90s we had one hour of kids tv a day, and that was your lot, you came in to watch it then went outside to run around again.

Nowadays its on 24/7, 365 days a year. No wonder kids get fatter every year.

We had VHS, and gaming systems for the TV too. I don't know about you but I spent a lot more than one hour on cartoons a day back then.

Reply 38

cole-slaw

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Original post by KJane

We had VHS, and gaming systems for the TV too. I don't know about you but I spent a lot more than one hour on cartoons a day back then.

I do remember owning a VHS copy of "The Flintstones meet Rockula and Frankenstone", but it wasn't something I sat and rewatched every day.

As I said in a post above, I never saw the point in games consoles. Real world games were infinitely more fun.