u/FearlessCookie72

Unfortunately, it has already been banned in several US states and countries, including Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Nebraska, Montana, Indiana, Texas, Italy, and Hungary (and possibly more to come).

I’m hoping more progressive places like New York, California, the Netherlands, Sweden, etc. don’t follow that trend.

It seems like highly educated, developed and progressive countries or states in the US are usually where positive changes start before spreading elsewhere. So, don’t think it’s over just yet if you do.

I don’t get why that poll from a few hours ago is even remotely tied. People are just biased, it seems, preferring feelings over facts.

The younger part of Gen Z literally grew up with smart devices in their hands as babies and had their formative years shaped by the pandemic. Like, it’s obvious. If you disagree then you’re also disagreeing with teachers and researchers who have been pointing this out in real time.

Constant screen exposure, different attention patterns, and then on top of that, years of disrupted schooling and social development during COVID.

That’s not a small variation. That’s a fundamentally different upbringing that will impact them in the future.

Meanwhile with Millennials, the differences are there obviously, but they’re more gradual. Most of them experienced the same general shift into the digital world, just at slightly different ages. It wasn’t this split where one end of the generation had a completely different baseline from birth.