doctorambient<p>I saw an interview recently where the interviewee -- who is about my age or maybe a little older -- was talking about how <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialmedia</span></a> has changed things.</p><p>He said that before social media kids were either outside playing with their friends, or inside in their rooms *drawing, or playing with a keyboard, or whatever*.</p><p>If he had just added reading and programming 8-bit machines, that would actually be my childhood.</p><p>(1/3)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/kids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kids</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freetime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freetime</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialStress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialStress</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stress</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/silence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>silence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/alonetime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alonetime</span></a></p>