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Welcome to Children's Day on Scripting News! NY Times: "The Internet was enabling a great status upheaval and a subversion of all manner of social norms. And the people quickest to seize on its powers were the young." Good point. Yesterday I was in Blockbuster renting movies of course, and there were tons of young people, all kinds and shapes, but they all had one thing in common -- cell phones. This is something new for me. I tried to imagine how my grandfather would parse this. They're all talking to people they're going to watch movies with, presumably. Or talking about the date they're going to have, or just had. Their consciousness is not really in the video store. Now back when I was a teenager we didn't have video stores or cellphones. Just the three standards: sex, drugs and rock and roll. As they say, we made our own entertainment! I think every generation says that when they reach my advanced age. (46) John Robb: "Marie wants her Yahoo mail. Aaron wants to go onto Battlenet. Good thing my three youngest daughters aren't online yet, but that will change and I will be even deeper in shit."
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