"Kids these days and their telephone devices, amirite?

I’m a youth minister, and occasionally the older parishioners at my church bring up the technology problem to me like they’re dropping a bombshell of information. “You know, the problem these days is that kids are so addicted to their phones!”

Yes, I’m aware. I just resisted the urge to check it twice during this conversation and you JUST walked up.

What I want to tell them is that my teens are more aware of social media addiction than I was when I was in high school. What I want to tell them is America has been addicted to screens since the invention of the color television. But I don’t have time to get on my soapbox after Mass. That’s what this blog post is for."

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Question for thought:

1) Do you have an addiction to social media?

 

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