True. We’ll soon see a generation of hump backed pensioners with useless hands/fingers due to excessive phone useage, and as you say, no idea how to engage with people. I think we’ll also see a more angry generation in the kids currently growing up, with the amount of hate and negativity they see on social media, who will also believe in some of the craziest things, because they “saw it on the Internet” that’s just full of fake crap.
I read a book called Everything Bad is Good for You this year - it's about popular culture and its positive effects. I've always taken a dim view of computer games, but the section on them is pretty compelling about how complex they are now - in comparison with the likes of Frogger etc that I grew up with.
I wonder if some of that is down to the generally monosyllabic nature of being a teenager? I suspect we might have been more that way than we readily recall. here was a piece in Science Focus a way back on a study that demonstrated that those who were best able to use text in yoof ways were also the best at using the rules of language proper.
The nature of modern society - make money wherever you can. If someone can sell advertising space somewhere, however odd, they will. It made me laugh watching Ready Player One, when Sorrento stated in a meeting that they could sell up to 80% of a gamer’s vision in the immersive world of the Oasis before they started complaining. What HiFi have literally done the very same thing on these forums in the past!
It's possible, but since I've become more reliant on the PC & Smartphone I struggle to physically write a letter with a pen & paper. I've never had any learning difficulties...
My handwriting is the same over the last 10 - 15 years - it's scruffy at best. Apart from Christmas cards and Birthdays I never write anything physical anymore
Yeah, I can see that.Toyah Wilcox
He ticks an inclusiveness box for the broadcasters.
Your 'turns my stomach' comment is exactly what my brother says of him.
If he's on any programme I switch over or play some music. He looks like a love child of Freddie Mercury. Difference is Freddie had genuine talent.
Like Joan Rivers, he's had so much done to his face, he looks like he‘s wearing a mask.
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