Techie Teen Gifts

'You want me to stop playing video games and go outside to play? In all that air pollution?'

"I'll be glad when this is over and Sarah can be herself again."

The whole family can't wrench a teen away from his computer.

'...then I found out he was on broadband, so I nicked his phone as well.'

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"They communicate through clicks and taps."

Text Culture

Tamagotchi paralysis.

"Swiping won't cut it sonny-boy, you have to physically walk to the next painting."

"I hate you! You don't understand me and you don't understand my software!"

'You can stick your filthy shell. I'm listening to the Arctic Monkeys.'

"He's my school project for science class."

'This is suppose to be progress.'

'This program is geared towards the youth market. You give it up to five commands and it closes down in a huff!'

"My mom's restricting my phone. She says I don't have enough Selfie Control."

'If it 'tells' the time, why do I have to look at it?'

Child hooking into a television

"Would you mind adjusting the vibrate on your phone? There's a seismologist on TV claiming there's been an earthquake in our neighborhood."

nstead of looking at fish bowl, a kid watches the fish on TV as they are being video taped.

Social Networking.

"I'm asking you to write your name on the board. Surely you don't need your smart phone to help you spell your name!"

"You're just gaming down there? Shouldn't you be issuing your first IPO for some billion dollar internet enterprise you've created?"

"I dreamt I went to school without my phone!"

"I hacked into Santa's computer and added a few gifts. It pays to have computer skills."

"My homework is not done because our home modem is tool slow for downloading the answers."

"Never mind your technology, in my day we had to deliver our jokes by hand!"

"She was really disappointed when she found out she was going to an eye doctor and not an iDoctor."

'I think Benjamin like me. He linked my homepage to his homepage.'

"It seems our precious three year old hacked into the White House with his playtime computer!"

"Wh@_I_Did_During_My_Whole_Summer_Vacation."

ALMOST SLEEPING BEAUTY

When it comes to texting, she's all thumbs.'

'I'm NOT trying to break in and change my grades. I'm only trying to change the school lunch menu.'

"Spirit! Are you a chatbot?"

"No, I'm not doing my homework, but I am watching a YouTube video of someone doing theirs."