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.
where’s my dopamine pump? WHERE’S MY DOPAMINE PUMP?!?!
Oh god oh god o shit wtf goddamnit
OH! There it is. whew heh. ahhhh. memes. funny.
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.
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
Its communication that harms young brains. Kids should never have unrestricted access to the internet.
That sounds like censorship to me (and thus, a bad thing). Maybe it’s just because I come from a background where my ultra religious parents censored the entire secular world from me as a child, but I am firmly against any form of censorship.
kids need to have things restricted from them. If a parent believes something is harmful to their kid, then they need to restrict it from them.
Withdrawals. Bring back pagers.
More like Hilary Duff.
I think people are potentially missing your sarcasm. Though I believe your comment on point.
What they’re describing is addiction withdrawal and an inability to interact with reality.
