Social psychologists urge ending cellphone childhoods NOW

[thewayne]

This is a really ugly article, ugly in a way that it paints our culture and what's to become of it if we don't make changes.

Four suggestions are made, and I can agree with them all:
No smartphones before high school
No social media before 16
No phones in school (also to stop helicopter parents)
More independence, free play, and responsibility in the real world

I read a truly horrible article last week that one year olds today are exposed to one thousand fewer spoken words at home today because of other people being addicted to their tablets! That's just... SMH, words fail me.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-terrible-costs-of-a-phone-based-childhood/ar-BB1jONI0

https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/24/03/16/2238228/social-psychologist-urges-end-the-phone-based-childhood-now

Comments

[thewayne]

I think there's probably several factors coalescing, perhaps with smartphones/SM acting as a concentrator/distillator?  I read an interesting piece today about how American workers are treated as cogs in the machine of capitalism to extract value from on a fairly consistent basis, something that I've recognized for some time.  If the Z+ generation are recognizing this now and saying 'WTF?!  THAT is my FUTURE!' then yeah, can't hardly blame 'em.  It is a really shitty system.