Putting God back into schools.

[Ninurta]

I don't think kids getting ungrounded is a US problem solely. It's indeed the smartphones and computers. How can young children grow up in the community, when they hang out in one that is not local but through the internet? Analog that's like a child only growing up with HAM radio and never visit town in free time or play with kids in their age? 

While I type this, something comes to my mind. Not sure if it's really related. You know, I am a bit social awkward, I can also not memorize faces very good. But I can see tones as colors and see the color of someones voice and it changes with mood of the person. For me that was always a common thing until I learned it isn't. But in retro perspective some things make sense now. This is going to be a big leap now but I think that:

The internet, already in my generation, made sure that some unlearned to control their facial expressions. I mean like, maybe it's also the telephone but when you have conversations via phone or over the internet, you do not need to hide them or control them. Because the color would give away a second hint, I quickly spotted the patterns when someone is authentic or trying to deceive me. Or better say, if the smile fit's the color of the voice.

But strangely, this isn't true for older people than me. You know, when I got out of school I had more contact with older persons, it's just normal. And there I noticed, by big margin, that my patterns would not fit. But over time I found out through experience, that the older generation can control / hide their facial expressions a lot better, while my age group still has this very obvious trait.

TLDR; My theory is that the internet and any communication that is not face to face is counterproductive to the development of social skills like facial expressions. Like for example, there are levels of disgustment but some just know full disgusted or not. I mean the extreme face of disgust. It's so wicked to describe. It may all be nonsense, it's just I am not naturally good with that, I know that so I have to compensate with logic.

Probably it's nothing though.

But yeah, "the youth of today" *raised fist in the air*

Yes indeed, facial expressions ARE a major component of non-verbal communication, and that is missed altogether across the internet in a written medium. Same for mandatory masking - it hides the facial expressions, and therefore quite a lot of the unspoken communications. That is part of the reason children are becoming less socialized, along with text communications rather than face to face communications. another non-verbal clue is voice inflection, and that is also lost across the internet, and may be somewhat muffled by mandatory masking.

It almost seems like a plan to de-socialize kids!

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