Once the clock strikes midnight, Gen Alpha will end, marking the beginning of Gen Beta. Prey that this new generation won’t be doomed like the current one!

Oh thank God!

Thank god is right!

 

Hopefully with more parents that know of the perils of giving young kids unsupervised access to tablets, phones and the internet at a young age this will be true.

As a Gen Xer this makes me feel so old…

As a Gen Z in my late 20s, this makes me start feeling old. 

I'm from the later end of gen z

Time will tell if Gen A is as (...) by addictive algorhythm driven media, as the boomers were by continuous low level lead exposure in their youth. At least i hope the kids's damage is reversible, which lead exposure is not.

Like from excessive screen time?

Not screen time in general - parents parking their kids in front of a screen is as old as cable TV and essentially a constant for anyone born in 1980 or later. I'm from the early 90s but i spent at least half the time i had after school watching TV. The worrysome aspect this time is that many shows are created to play into grabbing the attention of a kid for less than a minute before going to the next (destroying their attention span if you need to concentrate on something, like school work or fact checking whatever a politician says about the threat of the day), as well as shows being created in such a way that kids, especially those under 6 years of age, can barely look away from the screen. Comparison tests are done in a casual media lab setting, to see which colors and movements capture the attention of the child the strongest. A child is put in front of a screen, and a standardized distraction is introduced. The version of the show (movements, sounds, colors) that the kid doesn't look away from, is the one broadcasted. You can look it up, Cocomelon does exactly that.

Furthermore, the algorhythms feed the user content that they are most likely to interact with. This is very much a problem with both middle aged and elderly people on facebook (the often fake or misleading posts that trigger most outrage, such as 'The [random minority of the day] are threathening our kids/jobs/economy/eating our pets/want to introduce litter boxes at schools', as it is with young people (the 'manosphere' in which boys in puberty are being told that fun thing X or Y is feminine and/or gay and therefore bad, that making money is the end goal even if it doesn't make you happy etc etc). 
Anger and insecurity fosters interaction with the content (watching, liking, sharing, even posting a negative reaction is profitable), and that is what makes the platform money. But it should be completely obvious that feeding people content about what they fear or get angry about, is incredibly bad for their mental health.
I've completely left facebook because i couldn't stand the old folks falling right into the trap the populist politicians set for them. No, the immigrants aren't taking your jobs. We need them because we don't have enough people of our own to work in the fulfillment centres and on the farmland. And no, gay dudes aren't coming for your kids. Again and again. At first i tried having reasonable discussions with them, but it was a lost cause.

I do hope that any damage is reversible, as it is not with low level lead exposure for people born between the 1930s and the 1980s. But for that we do need a more fact driven instead of emotional approach to media.

Most of the boomer generation was able to buy real estate (even multiple properties for some.)

I know some Generation Y, that still does not own real estate.

Almost all of my generation (Millennial) that I know my age or above, have been able to buy real estate, particularly if they got in before 2020. Some my age even own two homes.

I have noticed though that younger end of millennials, like just younger end, born in 1990s usually do not own any real estate.

I have serious doubts that gen Z or gen Alpha will be able to own real estate in any large numbers. Unfortunately it seems without some kind of crash in prices to get properties out there in the market again and at a semi affordable price, this trend will continue. Or more hopefully, pricing and inflation will flatten for a while, so that people can catch up on careers and savings.

As a real estate crash again would mean something major wrong in the economy, like the 2000s recession that prevented many my age from getting a good paying career for a number of years after college.

I'm from the early 90s but i spent at least half the time i had after school watching TV.

I'm toward end of the Baby Boomer era.  Yes, when I come home from school I watch TV for the rest of afternoon watching cartoons, Three Stooges and Brandy Bunch.  I even watched The Electric Company before the dinner starts.

Does anyone remember Saturday morning cartoon?  I used to watch them from 7:00 until 11:30 in that morning session

As a kid, i was given an old little black and white TV because in the mid 90s, TVs were not yet trivially inexpensive.

With regards to real estate - am born in the early 90s. Working class job or slightly higher than that. Unable to buy a house within commuting distance of my work. Where i can buy a house, there are no jobs.
Part of it is because how my brain works. With my degree i can get an office/consultancy job that would pay enough to allow me to buy a basic apartment. But turns out, i really dislike the whole concept of doing consultancy to help corporations make more money, or doing an office job and sitting behind a computer or talking to the same people all day long. I tried it, i had nice coworkers, yet i got more and more depressed up to hoping my train to work would crash so i could just stay away from that place.

In my neighborhood, half of my childhood friends still live here at age 25-35 with their parents because real estate and rent has risen in cost WAY faster than wages/salaries have. Social housing is like a trickle supply. I waited for 8 years for my apartment (i have already moved my HID lamps there!).

As said, it takes a big crash before people can afford to live by themselves again. But a crash also comes with less employment opportunities.

Eventually, over the course of decades, the housing problem will solve itself under certain conditions (this does not mean we just gotta sit and wait, we need housing NOW). Once the boomers kick the bucket, the low birth rate of the current generations of young people mean that there will be a good stock of houses for the number of people living somewhere. However, this will only happen if you force property owners to not demolish houses. After all, the current situation of way too little supply, greatly benefits property owners. To avoid the housing market becoming a buyer's market, it is highly likely that they will demolish a lot of the housing stock just to drive up prices of the houses that are left.

Hopefully with more parents that know of the perils of giving young kids unsupervised access to tablets, phones and the internet at a young age this will be true.

Same! Additionally, it should be illegal to allow electronics in schools under federal law.