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Originally Posted by asciibaron
the issue raised in the article gets to the heart of why i bought the Kindle 4 NT e-readers. it seems more and more the secondary use of the Touch et al is reading with the primary use being some distraction based app. my wife brought her work iPad home - within 10 minutes it had a dozen games loaded on it and the kids were taking turns playing some car driving game.
i have witnessed it plenty at Boy Scout events, youth sporting events, whatever, when kids and teens have a tablet type device they opt to play Subway Surfer or Angry Birds or whatever else is hot over reading - every time.
this forum can't see the trees because of the forest - it's filled with readers.
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We can see just fine. I'm not so sure you're seeing what you think you're seeing. Are they playing Angry Birds because they have a tablet, or do they have a tablet because they want to play Angry Birds? One generation might complain that kids are spending all their time playing baseball, and another might complain that kids aren't playing baseball. There's always some sort of scapegoat, people imagine that if it weren't for that, people would do things like they did in the old days. Maybe without tablets, these kids at camp would be eagerly participating in all sorts of camp activities, or maybe they might just sit around complaining how bored they were. I don't think there has ever been a time when everyone at camp was eager to be there.