Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.
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Teenagers would rather text than talk. They feel calls would reveal too much.
You know, kids text a lot today. It's phenomenal.
Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication - it's like passing a note - and this means we should be very careful what we use it for.
No sooner my kids leave their friends than they start texting them. And it's all in code in a language I totally don't understand.
These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.
That would be such a life-changing thing, for us all to know that there are other beings out there who we could potentially communicate with, or maybe we are listening to a signal that they transmitted hundreds of millennia ago.
I find it personally distracting when kids are constantly texting, but they can be texting something that is just benign and just fine.
The phone is one hundred, one hundred and ten years old. There was a middle period where the government had a broad ability to surveil, but if you look at human history in total, people evolved and civilizations evolved with private conversations and private speech.
As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology to include strangers on the Internet.
Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication. And so many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old.