Whispers of a vibrating phone, beckoning unanswered calls, and constant post notifications have become white noise at the family dinner table. While your parents sit in silence, scrolling through their phones and chuckling at Facebook posts, they’ve excluded themselves from any kind of human interaction; it’s become clear that family time includes their entire social media following. Zombified and glued to their phones, Boomers have finally figured out how to use their social media apps—and it’s not pretty.

It’s no secret that our cell phones are programmed and designed to be captivating. With a flashy app for just about anything you can imagine, it’s easy to get wrapped up in screen time. Endlessly scrolling social media, scouring FB Marketplace, checking your email, playing games, and staying plugged into the world of your phone may seem like it’s all fun and games, but as many of us have come to realize, doom scrolling mentally takes a toll. It drains your energy and leaves you an ironically disengaged shell of a human. So while Gen Z’s and millennial’s parents have tapped into the digital dopamine mainline, their kids are quickly on their way out.

Once chastised for being on their phones all the time, now, teens and twenty-something-year-olds are forced to do the same for their parents. How the tables have turned…

Via u/southworks