[djtango]

Just the other day the FT put out an article that the current generation of graduates are so serially online that they freeze or go silent when faced with basic small talk questions.

I have encountered this for myself.

A few months ago New York banned phones at lunch and was discussed on HN [1]

We live in times where parents and schools no longer have the authority to enforce behaviour and social media is peer pressure from the entire world.

These bans are obviously heavy handed but hopefully they are a reversion back to an equilibrium that gives our young a chance to properly develop...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45822539

[squigz]

> We live in times where parents and schools no longer have the authority to enforce behaviour

...What? They certainly can, if they're banning certain behavior?

[docdeek]

It is one thing to ban something on paper, another to actually ban it in practice. In France, mobile phones for students in college (junior high school) have been banned but surveys of schools suggested only 9% of the schools actually banned the phones, citing practical and financial constraints. [0]

0: https://www.ouest-france.fr/education/les-telephones-bientot...

[sunshine-o]

I feel all of this has been going on for the last 50 years. TV and video games were a substitute for a normal environment for kids to develop in the at the end of the last century.

> We live in times where parents and schools no longer have the authority to enforce behavior

Yes but the problem is much deeper.

I often observer various "families" with their kids on holidays. The French and the Brits are really a nightmare, strangely the same countries who are now banning social media. But my guess is this is more of chicken than an egg problem.

You will often have an hysterical woman, totally deranged and often alone, screaming constantly on the kids for no reasons. You wish you could call child protective services on them and this is only when they are "relaxing" on holiday.

We know those kids are gonna get into weird internet things and drugs anyway to escape this world. France can write any law they want it is not gonna solve the problem and send them back to any "equilibrium".

Blaming TV, video games and now social media 20 years late is just a way to avoid talking about the real problem.

[thefz]

> I feel all of this has been going on for the last 50 years. TV and video games were a substitute for a normal environment for kids to develop in the at the end of the last century.

Not really, I was born in the 80s and video games did help me know a lot of people I still hang out with.

[kakacik]

You clearly have no kids