This is connected to the world because Gen Z is often expected to have little attention span or care about nothing, but the article is going against that belief and saying it may not be 100% true in all cases.

I think the way they wrote constant companions was interesting because it shows how we've always had something to rely on to keep us busy.

Also, text to self. I related to this line because, growing up, like many others, I was around and on social media a lot. On all kinds of platforms, whether it was being posted, watching things people had posted, or just being familiar with the platforms themselves.

This is what we should be paying attention to and raising awareness about. However, it's something that goes over our heads all the time, so we're reading this to bring attention to the fact that changes need to be made.

This is also a close reading annotation. I think this goes either against or is challenging gen z steryotypes because it is saying that, as a group of people, we have a really good attention span, but only to the things that we are really interested in.