Monday, April 19, 2010

A New Term?

I may simply be the last person on the planet to encounter this new word, but I was struck by its appropriateness when I came across it this morning:

screenager

I assume it's a play on teenager with the added dimension of reflecting just how much screen time the current generation gets (TV, Internet, video games, text messages). As I mentioned in my Math book, one study said that kids were averaging something like 7 hours a day in front of screens. This word may therefore be way more applicable than we'd like to admit.

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