If you watch the news or read articles on the Internet from time to time, you’ve probably heard that teenagers and Millennials are digital natives who constantly use Snapchat and Instagram and apps that only people who can’t legally drink know about.

Teenagers check their phones 150 times per day, marketers tell us. They need instant gratification.

They are “surfing paparazzi photos, logging onto Facebook… and uploading pictures of themselves while watching TV shows,” says the author of a book called The Dumbest Generation.

Young people “are interacting all day but almost entirely through a screen,” adds a reporter at TIME Magazine.

But if you want to characterize a large group of people, you want to have something to compare them to. And when you compare technology use among young people and middle-aged people, you discover something that, in hindsight, should seem pretty obvious—at least to always-connected working parents:

Adults are as addicted—if not more addicted—to technology as teenagers.

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