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VR/AR won't take off. It'll get better, if only in that our moral panic about it will evaporate as it did for comic books and video games.

Kids prefer being IRL with other kids w/ or w/o screens.

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Grab any teenager from the street and ask to see their screen time usage on the phone. I bet when you subtract sleeping and school hours (assuming their school has banned phones in classrooms) it will still be nearly double digit hours.

So? There was a time when all the phone-based activities were separate objects and devices. But today, conveniently they’re all in a single device. Aggregate screen time is a useless measure and discrete screen time only matters to help diagnose when something has done wrong. If the kid is wildly successful what doors screen time matter?

That's looking at it with rose coloured glasses. And please don't come back with "maybe they are watching educational content on tik tok" because we all know that's not true.

>22% of US teenagers spend 2-3 hours a day on TikTok [1]

1. https://explodingtopics.com/blog/time-spent-on-tiktok

How much time is appropriate? Who decides? What _should_ they doing instead? Who decides? Where does the kids agency during their discretionary time end?

> Kids prefer being IRL with other kids w/ or w/o screens.

Who are these kids you speak of?

Last sentence is just…so inaccurate

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