Well yeah. If I was blocked off from communication with everyone, of course I would be anxious. There's a difference between the security in having your phone on you, and using it all the time.
this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2024
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There has to be a happy medium between not isolating your kids while also protecting them from what is a highly corrupting environment. Maybe this is just hindsight, but I look back at my unfiltered internet access as a kid and am pretty pissed off that my parents didn't get more involved.
Tbh I had good filtered access as a kid but was rabid for more and private internet access, so kinda went off the deep end when I got a phone. I'm not sure what my parents could have done
Same here. When I got my first smartphone in highschool, I quickly became massively addicted. I would guess that at least half my time was spent on reddit and 4chan for many, many years.
Though I don't blame my parents... How could they have known?
So that thing with all my financial info, that accesses all the places I present myself publicly (ie social media), that is the primary method of people contacting me, that might be my best means of procuring transportation/food/emergency services, that helps me know where to go, that is my calculator/rolodex/calendar, that has all my prescription alarms, etc., that thing? Why would I miss it?
Well , it doesn't explicitly specify in the article what they mean by "don't have their phone", but from context I understand it as "not using it", or having it put away but still within reach.
The article also seem very directed at social media. All the things you mentioned, except social media, are on a 'need' basis (transportation, bank access, etc) which really doesn't take an abundance of screen time.
Well there's also school, work, messaging friends/family to coordinate events or daily errands/child caretaking/etc or just simply keeping in touch/chatting, reading for news/pleasure, tracking emergency events like inclement weather or other disasters, etc. etc. So there's plenty of screen time still even when you subtract social media usage, at least for many older kids/young adults, and/or adults.
where's my dopamine pump? WHERE'S MY DOPAMINE PUMP?!?!
Oh god oh god o shit wtf goddamnit
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