{"id":118022,"date":"2025-04-27T21:34:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T20:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=118022"},"modified":"2025-04-27T21:34:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T20:34:32","slug":"smartphone-generation-youre-misusing-your-opportunities-xzibit-to-youths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/smartphone-generation-youre-misusing-your-opportunities-xzibit-to-youths\/","title":{"rendered":"Smartphone generation:\u00a0 &#8220;You\u2019re Misusing Your Opportunities&#8221; Xzibit to Youths\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Oscar Okhifo, Abuja<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>American rapper, TV presenter and Record Label Executive, Alvin Nathaniel, also known as Xzibit has expressed disappointment in today&#8217;s youths over misuse of their\u00a0 smart phones thereby missing the opportunities imbedded.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He wondered why they&#8217;d preffer taking\u00a0 shots of their food to display on the internet instead of &#8220;Learning how to operate a brain&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He said, &#8220;The Youths taking pictures of their\u00a0 food instead of learning how to operate a brain\u00a0 are missing out big time&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The rapper did not hold back as he talked about the era&#8217;s youths&#8217;\u00a0 \u00a0relationship with technology.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u201cLook, these phones, they\u2019re super computers,\u201d he said. \u201cInstead of learning how to operate a brain, you\u2019re taking pictures of your food and other stuff.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Record Label Executive decried\u00a0 the apparent disconnect between the massive potentials of smartphones and other modern tools and how little they\u2019re actually being used to grow.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cAs a young boy, my parents had encyclopedias (big books). You had to spell the word, find the page, read it, write it down. Now, you\u2019ve got it all right here on a platter and you don\u2019t even use it or use it enough.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>To him, the youth of this day have a lot of opportunities buried in smartphones. Alas! They&#8217;re not interested in\u00a0 flying as they should with the\u00a0 technology.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He thinks this era of constant connectivity via smartphones is being wasted by the youths that ought to be the major beneficiary.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cYou could literally do brain surgery with instructions from this thing you&#8217;re holding. (your phone) but,\u00a0 instead you\u00a0 take pictures of\u00a0 what&#8217;s not important and argue with each other.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cTake time. Put in your 10,000 hours. Be really good at something. Pick something, and if you love it enough to do it, that\u2019s what you should be doing.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Xzibit&#8217;s call to action is blunt! 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