Well I may have been exagarating a little bit for effect. But it's not too far fetched to say that a child raised by dogs will whimper instead of crying, wag his but when he is happy and think sniffing yours is the appropriate way to say hello.
And unfortunately I am not sure the modern kids are. For I fear that in those minds, forever bound to their electronic gadgets there now lies less human than machine.
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I still say one of the best parenting decisions I made was making my son not get a cell phone until he was 16 and driving. He hated it for years. I had a home phone, and he could have friends call, and he could take the phone to his room. He didn't get a phone with apps until he got to college and he paid for it himself. While he still does a lot by phone now, he is not glued to it.
Same emotions perhaps. But different expressions. Different behavior. And worse still different motivators which drive those feelings. And in the end is that not the measure of a man.
Beware is all I shall say. Beware of the children of the internet.
For though they are of flesh made and woman born they are unlike you and I.
Their flesh is soft but in their soul only a cold machine resides.
Beware and pray that by the day the world is ruled by the likes of them well all have traveled to our graves.
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Studies show - kids instead of getting their dopamine and cortisol rushes from social interactions, they get it from electronic sources. So where a kid of the 80's (like me) would get a rush from showing up to school with a great outfit, and people would complement you. Kids now days get their mini-rushes from social media. They get excited and depressed by the number of likes and responses they get from posts. How fast people respond, etc.
The problem, is when people become attention seekers - due to wanting that rush (like any drug and dopamine high) - they get irrational. Hearing one of the Kardashians <sp?> going ape-shit crazy because one of their posts only got 10k likes and not 25k like their last one. That is the absolute downside of how the "gamification" of social media and our responses occur.
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Already there .. we have several congress critters (US Representatives and Senators) which are younger than I am.Fortunately, I most certainly will be.
You don't have to worry, until the leaders start looking young!
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Fine, but that's just like changing drug supplier.
They're still taking the same drugs.
They are still producing the same responses to the receipt of dopamine & cortisol.
They just receive it from different methods.
They still smile & laugh when they're happy, cry when sad, they just find happiness & sadness in different things to previous generations.
Yeah, just makes me think of the Mike Judge film, Idiocracy.
Either way you know things are grim when this old man breaks into poetry.
All my poetry is like that. I tend to write a lot about the human condition from that perspective.
These days it's become all too easy for us to pat our self on the back how we are all perfect and saving the world and other crap for making token gestures. And I feel that some times we need that little voice on our shoulder whispering into our ear that we are still but human with all that entails.
Exactly. We are neither angels nor demons, just men of flesh.
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It was roughly 20 years ago I actually first encountered this in a guy about my age, amybe a bit younger. He just said this "LOL" (as a word) deadpan. He wasn't deadpan though, just a guy with 24/7 computer stuff - studying IT, then working in it, online games (MUDs, the MMORPGs back then) rest of the time. So it's not that new even.
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wow - been in IT for 30+ years and never seen it. Deadpan, etc. I would have looked at them and said are you being sarcastic or what ever as you didn't laugh.
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yeah - if DeSantis gets in (I did say IF, not promoting, etc.) then I will be about that age.To be fair, I did say "leaders".When he looks young, you know you're old.You don't have permission to view the spoiler content. Log in or register now.
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I know a lot of people from the field (ex gf was one and introduced me to a bunch, including the example mentioned) and nobody else did this but were normal people with normal social cues, even if sitting in front of a screen a lot of the time. Well, there was another extreme example of IT guy being IT guy at university but for a different reason. And as a mathematician myself I probably should watch out for generalizations, so no offence meant to your field of work
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The game is poor?
I strongly disagree, but, more importantly, how do you arrive at that conclusion, if you could not play it on your OS?
That doesn't make it poor. It just makes it unavailable to you.
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None taken - just saying I hadn't seen it. I know several people without social skills, and those people we keep in the back room and don't present to clients. I am a client person, and spend 50% of my time on the phone (or video) with clients daily (but work 100% in front of my screens). I try to be careful about generalizations no matter where they are. I find that humanity is a bell curve in general and you can find many people out on the boundaries but most people are right in the middle of everything on a scale. But those extremes are what make us more fun. Six Sigma baby !!!I know a lot of people from the field (ex gf was one and introduced me to a bunch, including the example mentioned) and nobody else did this but were normal people with normal social cues, even if sitting in front of a screen a lot of the time. Well, there was another extreme example of IT guy being IT guy at university but for a different reason. And as a mathematician myself I probably should watch out for generalizations, so no offence meant to your field of work
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Yao, as with almost any group - mathematicians, gamers, car enthusiasts - you will find that most people are just your run of the mill neighbor type. However, in my experience you will also find the people responsible for all the stereotypes if you just know enough people.
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*Fixing my pocket protector* ... I know not what you speak. LOL (and for the record - I was laughing as I typed that - as that was the topic that started this all