I think this is arguably political but if better in "off-topic" please feel free to move this thread.
I'm 51 years old and, seemingly overnight, the smart phone ruined my family and community.
How' bout you?
Nope, and I am even an outlier, a sixty-four year old "recovering analog dinosaur" who survived the digital apocalypse and adapted fully:
I am a semi-retired cinematographer and film editor.
I started out old school, literally SPLICING motion picture film and then later, videotape editing and then finally, computer nonlinear.
I've even built quite a few of my earlier video editing workstations on my own, till I got too lazy and began hiring builders instead.
I have an LG V20, prior to that a Samsung, before that an HTC EVO4, prior to that a Nokia,
and before that, for about a year I had both a bag phone AND one of those Motorola BRICK phones.
I make and receive plenty of business and pleasure calls.
I occasionally look stuff up on the browser, there are a couple of very useful media related apps,
and I love using the video and still photo cameras.
I fat-finger way too much for that liliputian glass keyboard, so trying to type on it puts me off a bit.
And I've never been much of a gamer, so I don't spend any time killing aliens or what not.
I'm on DP, plus I do have Facebook, Instagram and Twitter...but I spend most of my internet time here.
I NEVER do it on my phone...again it's that fat-finger thing, I hate reading and discussing
stuff on a tiny 4 inch screen.
Give me "The Big Iron".
If I wanted to argue that computers and the internet ruined my family and my life, I'd have a hard time with that because computers and the internet are part of how I make a living.
The first time I edited the rock concert show I own the rights to, I did it on linear videotape, second and most recent time I upgraded the product and did all the work in AVID and Vegas Pro.
And I sell the damn thing on the internet, shipping through the US Mail.