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Technology and It's Affect on Society

  One Simple Question: This video made me really reflect on how entertainment for young children has been changing not only as described in the video, but just between my own childhood and my young cousin’s childhood. As a child and even into my early teens my favorite thing to do was to play with dolls. I would create entire stories with my dolls as the actors, and would be able to act it out for hours on end every day. There was even a time when I was at my grandmother’s house and she had to check in on me because I hadn’t left the playroom in four hours. But now every time I go to my grandmother’s house and she is watching my baby cousins, they are constantly watching YouTube videos, wanting to play games on her phone and the occasional game of tag. I didn’t even get my first phone until I was 13 years old and it was a slide up keyboard phone. Now my 6 year old cousin has an iPhone. Granted it’s an older model, it’s still odd to me. But this has been given to my baby cousins due...