Last week I shared a shuttle with a flight attendant. She was complaining about young people’s inability to shut off their phones right before takeoff.
“It’s only a two-hour flight. You’d think it was the end of the world for these kids!”
Oh, but it is. Considering the average teenager uses the Internet fifty hours a week — seventy percent of which are on their mobile devices – two hours is like an eternity.
You have to experience time from their perspective.
The other issue is, it’s not that they can’t stop playing with their phones. It’s that they can’t stomach the fear of disconnection.
Always on is all they know.
To them, the off button may as well be the Grim Reaper’s doorbell.
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How long does two hours really feel to you?
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