Kids and Technology.

For me, I've always had the luxuries with using the internet or having a phone. However, I was only interested in using the Internet when I was about 13 or 14 and I got my first phone when I was 15 which for me was the most convenient because that's when I found a need to contact people the most. It is quite astounding how attached some people are to their smartphone in this day in age and at times, it does get infuriating sometimes seeing people around me texting all the time.

Lol I still dont have a phone. I started really going on the internet at about 10 years old, mainly on youtube at the time.

I got my first phone at the age of 8 ( my father was training me and told me that if i do 8 pull ups he'll buy me a phone ). Internet.. well, at the age of 9.

I'm.... indifferent on this subject. On one hand I think it's absolutely no need for a little five or six year old to have a phone or a fully functioning computer. I feel that way because there is waaayy too much on the internet for a kid that young to be exposed to at such a young age. Children still have very much to learn at such an age and their parents should have the responsibility/pleasure/duty of introducing them to some of life's basic things before giving them the world at their finger tips in the internet.

That being said, my son is 13 months old and already knows how to point and drag things on a tablet. My point is that tech is everywhere. So much so that there's no way you can shut children off from it completely. I don't think there's anything wrong with technology being such a prominent part of our society. I just think there's a responsible and irresponsible way parent your kids when it comes to it.

I've used the internet since I was 6 to play flash games, I only had a half hour or so on it a day and wasn't not allowed to setup any type of "accounts" until I was at least 10. I didn't have a phone until I was 11 and that was only because I had to walk to and from school.

I was about 10 when I had my first phone and started using the internet, mainly for YouTube. Around 12/13 I started using Facebook and Twitter. Now I can't get off them! But kids who are 12 or younger and act and do things that I myself have no intention of doing and posting it everywhere, that is just ing wrong.

This probably happens all the time, when Video Game consoles became popular older generations probably thought the same.

I didn't have my first phone until I was 18, and was paying for it myself. Even then, it was just a throwaway Go-Phone.

I didn't use the internet regularly until about 2002, so I would've been 13 or 14.. I got my first computer at home, with internet, in 04. It wasn't "my" computer and I only got to use it mostly when my parents were at work. I only went to school for half days my junior and senior year, and graduated when I was 17, so for 04/05 I got most of the afternoon to play on the computer by myself, and 2006 I got the whole day to myself. I was working a full time job by 07.. So I was never really a kid on the internet, I guess..

I think I first used the Internet (text only browser) when I was 15-16ish. I didn't have an always on Internet connection until I was 22-23ish. Prior to that had 14.4k dial up on a regular phone line and had to be kept to a minimum so others could use the phone. Didn't have a cell phone until I was 26 or 27.