Subj : The Decline of BBSing
To   : Allen Prunty
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Sun May 22 2016 07:22 am

  Re: The Decline of BBSing
  By: Allen Prunty to Mark Lewis on Fri May 13 2016 04:29 pm

 AP> I am going to go where no one will dare to go and I think you will
 AP> absolutely agree with me on this one. The younger generation has been
 AP> dumbed down to the point where if I go to McDonalds and the total is 5.06
 AP> and I hand the young person a ten and they quickly push the button that
 AP> says "$10" then I hand them .06 and they look at me with the deer in the
 AP> headlights look. (Seriously I had a manager tell me I had to take the
 AP> change the computer said I get back to prevent "short change" scams).

I'd add that computer games and systems are built around short attention spans
and so they don't get the same experiencing banging your head to figure out a
game or a system. I see kids thinking they should be able to pick up sports the
first time out, and I have to explain to them that anything worthwhile may take
some time and practice to get good at it.

The kids that will spend long afternoons hitting tennis balls or kicking
footballs through goalposts until the sun goes down will go far -- there won't
be any competition!
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