Our future...from the mind of a seven year old...

[jbbama]

Sadly the video game generation has no interest in an old piece of cardboard or photos. They want to know "what else does it do" or "what do you do with it", then you say "you look at it, its history".............(blank stare from kid), it just doesn't interest them. Maybe its adhd??? Just my 2 cents.......of course kids today could care less about 2 cents also.

[vintagechris]

Originally Posted by jbbama

Sadly the video game generation has no interest in an old piece of cardboard or photos. They want to know "what else does it do" or "what do you do with it", then you say "you look at it, its history".............(blank stare from kid), it just doesn't interest them. Maybe its adhd??? Just my 2 cents.......of course kids today could care less about 2 cents also.

Ironically, my son go interested in collecting cards because of video games. He would play all the sport video games and we would open packs of cards and he would get players that he recognized from the games. He was about 5 I think.

He eventually got into vintage. Now he's 20 and much like me at that age, he has lost interest. I believe he will be back eventually. You can still show him stuff and he likes it but he doesn't buy stuff currently.

[vintagechris]

I have often wondered if the reason kids today don't care as much about cards today is the fact that when I was growing up, I opened a pack of cards and thought it was cool to have something with my favorite players on it.

Today, kids can go online and see countless pictures, stories, stats and anything else they want of a player.

As a kid growing up in the 70's and early 80's, I had a limited number of ways I could get info or pictures of Pete Rose, George Brett, Mike Schmidt and Tom Seaver.

I will say this too, Other than the big boom of the late 80's and early 90's, I think there are more people buying cards today than ever. I actually know more people locally that collect than I did when I was a kid.