Schools
Editorial: Living Through Screens
Mark Kiley ('16) shares his thoughts on people's need to share, rather than experience everything
by Mark Kiley
Class of 2016
Many parents perpetually complain that teenagers spend excessive amounts of time on their phones, and while many young people believe that these accusations are the result of a generational divide, the parents may be right. Younger people today seem to have an insatiable need to share even the most minuscule parts of their daily lives. Many people do not truly take in the most exciting moments of their lives, instead they spend those moments peering into a screen trying to create Snapchat stories that will be gone in a matter of hours, or Snapchats that will disappear in a few short seconds.
