Oftentimes it seems as if the baby boomer generation has nothing better to do with their time than criticise younger generations. From the May 20, 2013 cover story of TIME Magazine entitled “The Me Me Me Generation: Millennials are lazy, entitled narcissists who live with their parents. Why they’ll save us all” to the more recent attack by artist Ajit Johnson, it kind of seems like we can’t catch a break.

Johnson’s posters capitalize on criticising the heavy use of technology by younger generations, using the connection subtitle “#THISGENERATION” to really hammer in how much he hates the overabundance of technology in our society. Although Johnson isn’t a baby boomer, his arguments are the exact same arguments made not only by baby boomers today about smartphones, but also by their parents about televisions, and their parents about radios, and their parents about books.

The fact of the matter is this: technology has always been a point of contention by generations of people thinking that just because they grew up without fancy gadgets, their kids are wasting away by using it.

Johnson’s complaints are nothing new to the argument. He uses groundbreaking and shocking Sopoints like a picture of a phone icon reading “last seen: 8 sec ago” juxtaposed with a minimalist book icon reading “last seen: 8 months ago.” He also takes on subjects like blocking an ex on social media, having a date with a long distance partner over skype and the joyful experience when someone you want to talk to actually responds.

All in all, Johnson’s complaints seem less like a brutal look at our dependence on technology and more like a fundamental misunderstanding of the scope of relationships today. For anyone who has friends who live across a state or across the world, there is a true joy to being able to talk to them so quickly and effortlessly.

Even my parents, the baby boomers that they are, would never in a million years give up the ability to communicate instantaneously with old college friends so they could go back to writing letters and waiting weeks or months for a response that may never come.

At least with read receipts we know when someone is ignoring us.

And so what if people don’t read physical books as much anymore? Just because we aren’t picking up books doesn’t mean we aren’t reading — or has Johnson conveniently forgotten about e-readers, or even the huge expanse of websites full of news, information and, yes, even books available through the internet?

This technophobic, “edgy” art isn’t edgy or interesting — it’s boring and it’s been done and, quite frankly, the fact that the internet community at large responded to Johnson’s ridiculous posters by parodying them says a lot about how seriously we take that kind of “commentary on society.”

So, in short, I’d like to invite Johnson to remove his head from his rectal sphincter and maybe come down off his cloud of pretension and join the rest of us in our euphoric bliss of playing Words With Friends across state lines and having dinner dates over Skype. I promise it’s not as bad as you think.