Your children are in danger, America. No, not because of the Bogeyman or terrorism or emo music. No, it’s because that laptop in their bedroom is destroying their mind and ruining their childhood. So claims a study carried out by ChildWise, which says that, in swapping actual human contact with Facebook and in electing to play Football Manager instead of playing football, children today are in danger of maturing without the proper skills required to be a success later in life. To that effect.
The study says that kids as young as 5-years-old are, yes, spending too much time chatting (at the expense of reading or actually talking to people, building valuable social skills), are busy playing Fifa and Wii Sports (at the expense of playing sports in their backyard or at the park), etc. Too much YouTube and not enough reading. You know the drill.
The idea here is that, sure, being able to send off a terribly worded instant message may be cool and all, but it won’t get you a proper job. (Tell me about it, jkjk!)
In summation, kids, read a book every now and then (the implication is that reading NeoGAF doesn’t count), and parents, know when to tell your kids enough is enough.
It sounds like kids aren’t the only ones who spend “too much time computer” ha ha!
Last i checked i been spending “too much time computer” since i was 9 years old. Now look at me, a smart, intelligent man earning a very good salary with a chick magnet feature intergrated into my brains. So advice all you guys to let your kids spend “too much time computer”.
A more accurate term would be more along the lines of “only spends time on the computer”
Did you actually go out and perform physical activities with friends or family as well?
Its those that do NOTHING but sit behind the screen all day that this is a problem.
I did not read the study but I do agree with the premise that spending too much time on the computer diminishes social skills. In like kind, text messaging certainly can be attributed to the same sort of lowered social interaction.
Quite frankly, I feel the true problems are yet to come. Communication is typically the root cause of any issues that arise in your relationships no matter what capacity, personal or professional.
Wait, why is that picture in Arabic?
I first thought this was Gaza!
I know. I used to not spend much time on the computer. But now that i do: my life has fell into a chrisis. It is ruining my child hood. But the thing is that adults create these horrible things such as drugs, tv, computers, alchohol, fastfood (don’t take this personally) and kids such as me look up to that. Kids want to join in the fun and do what adults do. Some parents don’t even bother stopping their kid from too much computer. This is partially where they learn bad language, and innapropiate things. It does feel like i am killing my child hood.