Hammo
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I like to think of myself as a young pup at 23. Even since the 90s there has been a massive development in technology from the Sega Saturn and Mega Drive to X Box and Playstation and Wii.
Brick like mobile phones with children lucky to have one and perhaps parents well off to almost all youngsters in senior school having a mobile phone.
A low percentage of families with the internet to now about 70% of all UK households having the internet with over 50% having broadband.
The improvements just in my generation could be continued!
However, what bugs me is the introduction of technology such as the I phone.
Now whilst in the short term, this is brilliant, everyone is loving being connected to the internet and having a hand held device that does 'almost anything' as one friend described to me. Yeah right... probably the same friend that told me about Claude Davis joining Southend I hear you say haha!
Do any of the youngsters actually get out anymore go to a park and play football and meet up with friends and get drunk at park benches and getting alcohol from an offy on a friday strolling in shoulders back chest out to buy some booze underage?
I can see a fat nation developing and fast. Common sense and General knowledge levels decreasing over the coming years with people playing with all these new toys as opposed to socialising, having a beer, watching/reading the news?
I am quite simply amazed at the improvements of technology in my short life span. It is brilliant. But I am sure these toys could be a bad influence. E.g. connecting up to Facebook or Twitter in school lessons rather than concentrating on a lesson. Or perhaps the children that do this would be the ones normally out bullying and causing disruption so maybe as opposed to being a hinderance it would be a help?
This post by no means is trying to discourage improvements in technology but just a general concern for youngsters attitudes seeing how some of the youngsters at a few sports clubs I am a member of let technology take over their lives.
Maybe I need to move with the times and accept it with more E-Based learning coming into schools etc but what are your thoughts?
Time will tell perhaps?
Brick like mobile phones with children lucky to have one and perhaps parents well off to almost all youngsters in senior school having a mobile phone.
A low percentage of families with the internet to now about 70% of all UK households having the internet with over 50% having broadband.
The improvements just in my generation could be continued!
However, what bugs me is the introduction of technology such as the I phone.
Now whilst in the short term, this is brilliant, everyone is loving being connected to the internet and having a hand held device that does 'almost anything' as one friend described to me. Yeah right... probably the same friend that told me about Claude Davis joining Southend I hear you say haha!
Do any of the youngsters actually get out anymore go to a park and play football and meet up with friends and get drunk at park benches and getting alcohol from an offy on a friday strolling in shoulders back chest out to buy some booze underage?
I can see a fat nation developing and fast. Common sense and General knowledge levels decreasing over the coming years with people playing with all these new toys as opposed to socialising, having a beer, watching/reading the news?
I am quite simply amazed at the improvements of technology in my short life span. It is brilliant. But I am sure these toys could be a bad influence. E.g. connecting up to Facebook or Twitter in school lessons rather than concentrating on a lesson. Or perhaps the children that do this would be the ones normally out bullying and causing disruption so maybe as opposed to being a hinderance it would be a help?
This post by no means is trying to discourage improvements in technology but just a general concern for youngsters attitudes seeing how some of the youngsters at a few sports clubs I am a member of let technology take over their lives.
Maybe I need to move with the times and accept it with more E-Based learning coming into schools etc but what are your thoughts?
Time will tell perhaps?
