Comment on ‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I never got a smartphone until 9th grade and it never really affected me that much. Then again, I was the oddball kid who pretty much never used social media outside of yt.
But nowadays social media is so garbage and same goes for maybe 97% of yt, so I can see why parents don’t want their kids having a smartphone. Having access to services designed to keep you on their platform while also making you depressed over the life you could be living but aren’t is never a good idea, especially for impressionable teens trying to find their place in the world.
Misconduct@lemmy.world 8 months ago
So then parents should just not get their kid a smartphone and stop trying to police everyone else’s kids. It really is that simple
mellowheat@suppo.fi 8 months ago
Perhaps we can imagine a society where nobody had thought of banning handguns for children. But you can just not buy your own kid a handgun if it’s so important to you.
DeadlineX@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Yeah I remember that story about those kids killing an entire school with their smartphone.
That’s definitely not a flash equivalency at all.
Remember when video games were making kids kill each other? Because when I was a kid, that’s what people were trying to ban instead of smartphones.
mellowheat@suppo.fi 8 months ago
I think the difference here is in scope of the problem. Video games do make the extremely rare case of murderous psychopathy worse, but it affects very few children. Smartphones affect almost everyone and the problems they are causing can be seen in quality of learning data.
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Fair.