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Grandparents are glued to their phones [video]
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#22Maybe a solution is to spend more time with grandparents, so that they have something more than just technology to keep them company.
Sure, but I've seen since the 70s old folks just staring at TV all day, so it's not just a mobile phenomenon either.
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#23Reminds me of Chade and The Skill from the Robin Hobb books
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#24My aunt is 80 and thank goodness she has an iPhone. She’s bedridden and spends all day on it. She has no children but I lived with her for a while when I moved out of my parent’s, and we text often.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
> the most likely to vote Well... who's fault is that.
It's because election day is a weekday and the rest of us have to keep up with the grind. It's entirely because they don't have jobs
Early voting exists in many states. Even in these states you’ll find that younger folks hardly vote.
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#26I was reading up on some RCTs on social media and mental health recently and one of the surprising findings is that social media is actually worse for older people.
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#27Fortunately, I could never get used to the small screens of mobile phones as a serious computing or web browsing device. So my use of my mobile phone is limited to basic tasks like making calls, sending messages, and sometimes, reluctantly typing emails when I don't have a laptop handy. My primary computing and web browsing device remains my laptop, with Emacs and Firefox being my main tools. One thing that does mana…
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#29I was reading up on some RCTs on social media and mental health recently and one of the surprising findings is that social media is actually worse for older people.
That makes sense, they haven't "built immunity".
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#30I really wish iPhone/Android had better parental controls so I could monitor my dad's screen time and the type of content he was allowed to see on YouTube.