Growing up in early 90s we had a computer lab where we would go as part of kindergarten and first grade to play logo draw and Oregon trail. That feels way different to the type of tech exposure kids are getting these days with social media.

There is something fundamentally different about making things “social” than just doing something harmless offline, like playing a game with the family, writing a story, using MS paint, math blaster.

When things became social, it’s like we were all given sledgehammers and told to go smash the candy store and raid it for whatever we wanted.

Maybe I’m being nostalgic for the early / mid 90s when we didn’t have these devices glued to us and little red notification icons hijacking our dopaminergic circuitry.