A short excerpt from a YouTube video (uploaded by Aaron Hartman, MD) discussing how technology and digital platforms have changed children's social interactions and play. The speaker notes reduced in-person visits, reliance on devices/Zoom, and that invitations often hinge on online games (e.g., "come over and play Minecraft"), altering friendship dynamics and the meaning of getting together.
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They lost the interactions. It wasn't speaking to to people and we got so reliant on disconnecting and connecting only through devices and zoom and all these other things that is continuing and it's changed the way kids interact. It's. I find it hard to get people to come over and I got an MTV Cribs pool. I got like all this fun stuff. We got all the stuff in the basement. It's it's a fun house that this house and people are oh, he's going to be doing Minecraft today and all these other things and if it's something like that oh yeah, come over and play Minecraft. Come over and play Minecraft. It's the middle of summer. Let's get in the. So it's change of dynamics of play Aaron. That and getting together and people actually see friendships with who they're getting together and playing video games with. They might even be in the same state. That's really interesting.