Do Teens talk anymore??

[Anonymous]

It's a mixed bag. They do sometimes sit next to each other and either talk to the people they're sitting next to via their phones or talk to other people who aren't there with the people they're with on their phones.

It's bizarre, I admit. And as an older millennial, who is not anti-tech, it drives me insane. But it's the natural consequence of us handing babies tablets and cell phones from the crib.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My son talks constantly but it’s online while they are doing something, like playing a video game or doing something online together. If they are in person together in the car or at the bus stop they are all on their phones. He’s a teen and he’s rarely out socially with his friends if it’s not at sports practice.

Ok this is strange. I have daughters and it’s completely different. I know males aren’t huge talkers biologically, but this lack of face-to-face talking can’t be good.

I also have a daughter so I understand what you mean. I often ask my husband about it and he tells me they are normal teens and just not talking when adults are around. Maybe that’s true and why they text, so we don’t hear their conversations.

Actually, this is a good point. They definitely are talking via phones to censor their convo in front of adults. Which is....completely normal I guess. But they seem to lack the ability to engage with each other in front of adults as well like we used to.

There were always convos you had with your friends outside of adults' hearing, but you also still knew how to engage with each other when adults were present. Gen Z seems to lack that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My son talks constantly but it’s online while they are doing something, like playing a video game or doing something online together. If they are in person together in the car or at the bus stop they are all on their phones. He’s a teen and he’s rarely out socially with his friends if it’s not at sports practice.

Ok this is strange. I have daughters and it’s completely different. I know males aren’t huge talkers biologically, but this lack of face-to-face talking can’t be good.

I also have a daughter so I understand what you mean. I often ask my husband about it and he tells me they are normal teens and just not talking when adults are around. Maybe that’s true and why they text, so we don’t hear their conversations.

That is really true, my kids didn't seem to talk much to their friends around me, but when I walked past their rooms, I'd hear them laughing and talking. I think they were just being polite.

That said, my DS is very quiet and doens't talk alot even now that he's a young adult. My DD talks constantly and I love it LOL

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thats HOW they talk, lol. Actually, I was at a baseball game and saw 4 teen boys in front of us. One was writing in the notes app talking trash about one of the other boys there, showing his phone to the guy next to him. Then deleted it all. Ah, technology.

that's crazy, I guess that GEN Z for you. back in the day we used to fight and who ever lost will buy drinks and we would be friends at the end.

Teen boys don’t “buy each other drinks.”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thats HOW they talk, lol. Actually, I was at a baseball game and saw 4 teen boys in front of us. One was writing in the notes app talking trash about one of the other boys there, showing his phone to the guy next to him. Then deleted it all. Ah, technology.

Teens lack interpersonal skills due to technology.

The text “communication” has turned their communication far more base, cruel, and simplistic.

It has also shortened teens collective attention spans. COVID amplified all these negative trends.

All this. They don’t even know how to talk to the clerk at Panera. They just order their food online and run in and grab their food from the shelf. This is how they do things and these are all missed opportunities to grow as a person and learn how to talk to people and be a good conversationalist and a polite person.

I’ve noticed the same things. All of it.

I am so sad for my kids generation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thats HOW they talk, lol. Actually, I was at a baseball game and saw 4 teen boys in front of us. One was writing in the notes app talking trash about one of the other boys there, showing his phone to the guy next to him. Then deleted it all. Ah, technology.

Teens lack interpersonal skills due to technology.

The text “communication” has turned their communication far more base, cruel, and simplistic.

It has also shortened teens collective attention spans. COVID amplified all these negative trends.

All this. They don’t even know how to talk to the clerk at Panera. They just order their food online and run in and grab their food from the shelf. This is how they do things and these are all missed opportunities to grow as a person and learn how to talk to people and be a good conversationalist and a polite person.

I am 47 and started using apps for ore ordering more and more. It’s nice to not have to talk to some random people unless I so desire. And I have zero desire to talk to a Panera clerk