I was born in 1990. I'm thankful that I was able to be a kid before the real progression of technology. I spent most of my childhood outside, riding my bike, playing sports, and later getting into dirt bikes. We had a computer, but it was that thing in the corner of the house we used for book reports, a few games, and checking e-mails from grandma. I just started driving when cell phones were becoming more popular. I remember having to call my parents from the school office to get me if I stayed after school. I can remember the times where I'd be miles from home either by car, by ATV, or by bike without any way to contact anyone, and I'm thankful for that. I think living through that era allows me to still have the ability to disconnect from the news, from technology, and from my phone. I work in the tech field, and prefer my cars without navigation, and prefer my time outside of work spent outdoors or working with mechanical things. I don't think people younger than me have that strong of an ability to disconnect. My younger sisters have it, but definitely not as much. Now parents stick kids in front of an ipad the minute they can sit up by themselves. What happened to being parents? I grew up hating that my parents were old school, and not like my friends who had "modern parents". I'm now glad mine were old school.