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I dunno, I've worked closely with millennials every single day for the past twelve years, and I've never yet had one who couldn't read an analog clock. They also know how to recognize a fifty-cent piece and a two-dollar bill, and are better at adding figures in their heads than I am.
That said, they do spend too much time on those damn phones, and there's actually a reason for it: the Boys From Marketing have specifically manipulated them at the time of their most vulnerable phase of cognitive development, to be physiologically and psychologically addicted to the dopamine rush generated by social-media interaction, for the purpose of force-feeding them advertising.
Don't think so? Read this, right from the whorses' mouth. Yes indeed, there ought to be t-shirts saying "Mark Zuckerberg Made Billions Selling My Data And All I Got Was A Lousy Dopamine Jones."
One of my young millennials recently celebrated her thirtieth birthday by burning her entire social-media presence to the ground and walking away from it cold turkey. That, believe it or not, is actually a current millennial trend, and I say "The kids are all right. " My dear old mother, on the other hand, will go to the grave clutching her smartphone, and her last word will be a Facebook post of a dog lying on its back with its legs sticking straight up over the hashtag #i'mdeadlol.
Wonderful that one of your young friends was able to use her willpower to overcome the BFM manipulation. They will not stop coming at her, and all of us, so using her willpower to fight back is a great skill and strength for her, and all of us, to develop and flex (all the time).