Or, maybe it was never quite so bad as we all believed? There is no doubt that the internet and social media impacted all of our lives and routines drastically, but I think some of the impacts of social media are exaggerated by layfolk just reacting to how they feel about it. There are tons of great studies showing its impact to the mental state of children and we have to work on that, but I don’t think it has entirely uprooted the childhood experience. Just my two cents.
My kids live within easy walking distance of most of their friends, but they don’t hang out nearly as much as they want to because there’s a stroad between them.
Or, maybe it was never quite so bad as we all believed? There is no doubt that the internet and social media impacted all of our lives and routines drastically, but I think some of the impacts of social media are exaggerated by layfolk just reacting to how they feel about it. There are tons of great studies showing its impact to the mental state of children and we have to work on that, but I don’t think it has entirely uprooted the childhood experience. Just my two cents.
SUVs have done more to displace in person hangouts among kids than phones
My kids live within easy walking distance of most of their friends, but they don’t hang out nearly as much as they want to because there’s a stroad between them.
Urbanism isn’t just for hippies and LycraBros, it’s also for anyone too young to drive a car
Or too poor.
Stroads are the hp printers of the infrastructure world.