I can’t talk about younger generations, I’m well into my 50s, but I know they do a lot of things online. Heck, they even date online which to me seems as odd as wanting to eat an… air sandwich (so odd that I’m half expecting some app to popup offering them to have virtual sex too… for a monthly fee, obviously). But even like that there are still a lot of people (of all ages) that prefer IRL/physical/analog to online/digital to a subscription-based lifestyle. They’re just… less visible online (and they seldom complain about it online either) ;)

The thing with the Internet is that it creates this self-validation bubble, and I mean not just for political discussions where people expect to never have to listen to anything/anyone not agreeing with them, I mean it as a space itself, the Internet is good at downplaying alternatives to itself as a place to be and do things… Things like meeting people IRL, doing offline activities and hobbies. Who decided we needed to use a phone to watch a movie or to read a book or an app to meet someone we find attractive?

To me, all of that should have been one of the things education needed to talk more about to kids. If it ever tried, it obviously utterly failed. The real question being then: who decided we should stop doing all of those things our species have been doing for… ever. And why? And the answer may be as simple and obvious as: ourselves. It is us that did this to ourselves, it’s our own laziness and maybe our own fear, and our own stupidity.

Until then, ill go back to being mostly disconnected on weekends. Its great.

I don’t have dedicated offline days, but i do have a lot of offline time so allow me to congratulate you nonetheless on that decision and wish you had an even better WE than usual when you will read my comment. Because, you’re 100% right:

Its great.

And not just on WE ;)