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How phones broke children’s brains
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How phones broke children’s brains
Quote:Screens and teens: it’s a combination that’s become increasingly tricky to navigate over the last decade. The switch from what I think of as “analogue” phones – those with buttons but no internet – to smartphones, compounded by an upsurge in digital living during pandemic lockdowns, has resulted in 46 per cent of adolescents reporting they are online “almost constantly”. Some 97 per cent of children have a smartphone by the age of 12, according to Ofcom data.independent

Quote:By designing a firehouse of addictive content that entered through kids’ eyes and ears, and by displacing physical play and in-person socialising, these companies have rewired childhood and changed human development on an almost unimaginable scale,” Haidt writes damningly. Companies are accused of behaving like the tobacco and vaping industries, designing highly addictive products and skirting laws in order to sell them to minors.

Discuss.
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(10-11-2024, 11:51 PM)Inkubus Wrote:
Quote:By designing a firehouse of addictive content that entered through kids’ eyes and ears, and by displacing physical play and in-person socialising, these companies have rewired childhood and changed human development on an almost unimaginable scale,” Haidt writes damningly. Companies are accused of behaving like the tobacco and vaping industries, designing highly addictive products and skirting laws in order to sell them to minors.

Discuss.

The downside of empowering people with new inventions is that we also empower those who abuse others for their own self-interest.  A fair number of people are predatory. 

Our laws and customs are still playing catch-up.  In the meantime, we are learning the hard way.
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Parental  and teacher authority can have a lot
to do with the way children and teens interact
with their mobile devices, how frequently they
do so, and the stress deprivation it causes them
if they're denied them.

How can it be that children must carry a mobile
phone to school?  Why are children lying in bed
at night scrolling through their "social media"?
Why do they demand a mobile phone from their
parents as soon as they hit puberty?  What gave
them that expected right?

I have a current mobile phone that cost $159 last
year that has all the necessary bells and whistles
—except for geolocating.  Why do kids now want
the latest $1200 phones every (statistically) 17
months?
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(10-11-2024, 11:51 PM)Inkubus Wrote: Discuss.

Can't.  I'm too busy on the phone.
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Phones?!? When I was a kid it was walkmans that were supposed to melt our brains. Don't tell me that didn't work!
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To quote Rodney Dangerfield:  "When I was a kid we were so poor that if I wasn't a boy I wouldn't have had anything to play with!"
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Parents contribute to the issue when they use their kids' phones to avoid parenting. It is easier to accept a babysitter or ready distraction than to set realistic boundaries around usage. An unoccupied kid is an opportunity but also a hassle.
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(10-12-2024, 02:20 PM)Vorpal Wrote: Parents contribute to the issue when they use their kids' phones to avoid parenting. It is easier to accept a babysitter or ready distraction than to set realistic boundaries around usage.  An unoccupied kid is an opportunity but also a hassle.

Back in the day it was TV, at least for me. Next gen was computers/games, now morphed into phones. Glad I don't own one, but that may just be old fartism.
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(10-12-2024, 02:36 PM)brewerb Wrote: Back in the day it was TV, at least for me. Next gen was computers/games, now morphed into phones. Glad I don't own one, but that may just be old fartism.

LOL...  Back in the day it was the radio for me.
Every evening after school was spent listening
to the next 15-minute episode of Superman,
The Lone Ranger, Biggles, Tarzan, Hop Harrigan,
Dad and Dave etc.
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(10-13-2024, 12:25 AM)SYZ Wrote:
(10-12-2024, 02:36 PM)brewerb Wrote: Back in the day it was TV, at least for me. Next gen was computers/games, now morphed into phones. Glad I don't own one, but that may just be old fartism.

LOL...  Back in the day it was the radio for me.
Every evening after school was spent listening
to the next 15-minute episode of Superman,
The Lone Ranger, Biggles, Tarzan, Hop Harrigan,
Dad and Dave etc.

Did we both forget the flickers? We only had one theater in town but every Saturday afternoon they ran youngster movie.
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(10-12-2024, 01:35 AM)SYZ Wrote: Parental  and teacher authority can have a lot
to do with the way children and teens interact
with their mobile devices, how frequently they
do so, and the stress deprivation it causes them
if they're denied them.

How can it be that children must carry a mobile
phone to school?  Why are children lying in bed
at night scrolling through their "social media"?
Why do they demand a mobile phone from their
parents as soon as they hit puberty?  What gave
them that expected right?

I have a current mobile phone that cost $159 last
year that has all the necessary bells and whistles
—except for geolocating.  Why do kids now want
the latest $1200 phones every (statistically) 17
months?

From my experience as a teacher I would answer your question by the fact that parents are anxious and want to be able to contact their kids whenever and teenagers are very, very socially conscious and they want to have smartphones and the latest best one if possible because they are status symbols and sign of wealth, love from their parents and privilege. Plus they are cool looking to them.
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It’s not much different than kids wanting the $150.00 sneakers or the latest in fashion. The newest phones have all the bells and whistles…I even want the newest ones!
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