It’s the age of regret: gen Z grew up glued to their screens, and missed the joy of being human | Gaby Hinsliff
IThe relationship of love-hate that determined a generation. We believe that we know everything about adolescents and the phones that they are fundamentally associated with: sleeping with them under the pillow, and panic on the possibility of depriving Wi -Fi, until they are glued to the screen to the extent that they are unaware of the world revealing around them. However, the first generation that has never known life without social media – the medicine that keeps them in the first place returns to their phones for more – is now growing enough to think about what it might do for them, and the answers are almost enough to break your heart.
Two -thirds of children between the ages of 16 and 24 believe that social media is more harmful than good, and three quarters want a tougher organization to protect young people than that, according to the polling poll for Britain’s new projectOne of the ideas of thinking founded by a previous teacher, Anna McChan. Half believes that they spent a lot of time when they were younger, unfortunately among those who started using young social media. And most of all, four of every five say they will keep their children out of that as long as they can be fathers. This is not the way anyone talks about something they love, but how do you look back on a relationship that was in the past that makes you miserable.
Although their concentration groups confirmed that parents were desperate to help fly children on the screens, what is reviving in McChan’s research is that it indicates that generations are not closed in fighting as they feel sometimes; This is increasingly, we are all on the same side. It turns out that Gen Z, does not need more lectures from their elders (often an equal feet) about descent from this bloody phone. If there is anything, they may have something to teach us.
On Friday, Parliament will vote on a member of the Labor House Significantly. Although Macalister originally preferred to raise the legal limit to reach social media from 13 to 16, the draft law now commits ministers only to submit reports again within a year on the case to do so, in addition to making more research and publishing new guidelines about the time of children’s screen. With the CEO of X, Elon Musk, actually included in the White House, some will suspect the ministers of overcoming the confrontation with American technology giants. But there are other reasons for the lack of rush, at least until the new complex safety law was stabilized over the Internet because of this spring, and the ministers had an opportunity to learn from a similar ban It was presented in Australia and Norway.
Instead, it appears at the same time that Gen Z takes things with their hands. A generation of children who grew up online, spent a lock in their bedrooms, often their first jobs began to contact a distance in enlargement meetings, and now it seems that he is actively trying to teach himself to communicate with the analog method.
Night clubs and party places From Manchester to Ibiza to Berlin, they started asking the Barroperians to put stickers on their phone cameras, and encouraged them not to photograph on the dance track, but only It loses themselves at the present time Like their parents to do. Meanwhile, the explosion of the GEN Z clubs, reading groups, and individual parties of the exhausted people through dating applications, and the events of “digital toxins” where phones are left outside the door, reflecting new starvation and a new face -to -face contact.
The writer Adele Zenib Walton, 25, was established Sign out of the clubThat organizes real social meetings for people trying to dismantle their phones, after a chance during the weekend on a 25th birthday with friends. It turned out that all of them were concerned about the time of their screen and they were secretly trying to cut it, but they felt aware of it. In the registration of the club’s events, she says fun: “We take people’s phones before them at the door and put them in a bucket.” It is like tearing a comfortable blanket at first, but it makes people talk to each other instead of hiding behind the screen. In one of the events that I jointly organized with City Daze, another social club organizes free -free areas around London, the attendees were given braid cards to help them start the talks.
What appears to accumulate among younger women in particular is not just a violent reaction against the type of toxic content, bullying, or spreading political information in their lives on the Internet, but the feeling that spending a lot of time on their phones depriving them of a human and important thing. Walton began to think about the place she might want to settle in the next few years, just because she feels that she is not rooted in any realistic society: although she was speaking for years online for people who have never met them, she does not know her physical neighbors. She says her generation has been sold, “was sold from the lies of communication” by the large platforms, but she finds the false communism there ultimately unsatisfactory, which leaves them want more. Her book on all this, Record the exitIt is published in June, and although it is difficult to read as a father without thinking about the guilt that society was asleep on the wheel here, something strange about watching Gen Z begins to try to rebuild the lives they clearly feel that they were missing.
American sociologist Robert De Putnam is famous for as a classic down Bowling aloneAnd who argued that society has become more fragmented, extremely and disturbed during the second half of the twentieth century, as Americans retreated from collective activities – from collective sport to churches – which bind them once. But in his latest book, ClimbWritten with Shailin Romney Garrett, Putnam returns to another half a century to explore how this marital state of Pauling came in the first place. He says that this was also part of it a reaction to a period of unity and isolation, but this time because of the people who move from rural and small coherent to cities and major cities where there were jobs and opportunities, but where they had few relationships. This was followed by a mushroom of social clubs, from the Rotary clubs and scout groups to the unions, which they collected; Although they did not know that, their organs were building the beginning of the rise. My ethical story, for those who dare hope? Once societies get the course of isolation, sometimes the only way remains.
