Showing posts with label children. Show all posts
Showing posts with label children. Show all posts

Tuesday, 17 April 2012

Influence of digital on children

I had a really interesting conversation with my friend a few days ago. We were talking about the difference between our generation and those, who are younger. Particularly we were talking about the digital and computer influence and then the conversation started about toddlers. Oh yes, it was an unexpected but really interesting conversation.

We started with the fact, that when we were younger, we spent most of our time outside home. It was almost impossible to bring us home in a good weather – we wanted to play with our friends outside and we had so many different games! We did not want to watch tv or play computer games – even though we had computer and we had such games as The Sims. We spent most of our time not watching at the screen. We also had Internet, obviously, things were different, but we had a programme called mIRC that we used for online communication (alternative to Skype), we also had a local social network (alternative to Facebook) and all those things we had before 2007.


What we can see now, that teenagers spend a lot of their time with the screen – facebooking, twittering, watching videos and playing games. It became normal to stay at home and play a computer game with 3 of your friends – yes, you can talk while you play and you play it together – but you are not together. How social it is? I would rather go outside and walk with my friend. It might be the reason why I prefer to spend my spare time outside home and why I love walking.