My wife and son and I had exactly the same kind of quality family time benefit with geocaching. Goose, I'm happy that you're getting that benefit with your sons. That is time spent the best possible way, and they will remember that time as a high point in their growing up.
I don't worry about the adult supervised kids who are out playing this game. I worry about the kids who are out by themselves without the wisdom to know what not to do; or people like this fool who plow their vehicles into cop cars because they are distracted by the game:
http://usat.ly/2ab4p1J
I use my phone a lot, in a lot of different situations, for a lot of different things - including entertainment. But when I'm driving, it's paired to my vehicle's sound system, and so I play my tunes that way, and I can make and receive hands free phone calls using controls on the steering wheel and voice recognition, and I keep my eyes on the road........and I don't walk around with my head in my phone. BUT......I have used my phone to find geocaches. So although I'm not into the Pokémon Go thing, I do get it. I'm just not as knocked out by "augmented" or "virtual" reality as some people are. It's not my thing.
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- Thu Jul 21, 2016 10:05 am
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The game selects for Darwin Award winners: http://www.scarymommy.com/teen-pokemon- ... -accident/
- Wed Jul 20, 2016 7:18 am
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You're a 1911 guy?Ryan wrote:My neighbor had someone jump their fence, at 2 in the morning, to get into their backyard because one of these things was supposedly there. This game is going to get someone killed. Anyone in my backyard at 2am is likely not going to catch anything but a bullet or 8.