Comment by joshstrange

I hate these articles so much. "Kids love paper maps", "Kids are trading in their smartphones for dumb phones", etc.

No.

No they are not.

Period.

It's a vanishingly tiny group of "kids" and in this case it's because they aren't allowed a smartphone... Ok, sure, any port in a storm but it's not like it was a choice.

I'm not interested in debating when kids should get a smartphone but replace "landline phones" with "discord servers" and it's the same thing. Kids don't care about landline phones (sure it might be interesting initially), they care about talking with their friends. If they only method to do that was via cans and string they would be using that, not because they want to or it's better/best but because it's all they have available to them.