A majority of US teens are taking steps to limit smartphone and social media use • Hacker News Board

Re: A majority of US teens are taking steps to limit smartphone and social media use

#111

Post by flukus » Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 10:58 PM UTC

tapland wrote: post #32

flukus wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> And we "binge" on TV shows now which didn't really exist in the 70s. Isn't that an improvement overall? You decide you want to watch something and you watch until it's finished. Media consumption habits in the TV era were much more passive and a lot of people would watch a show just because it was on. "There's nothing good on TV" used to be a common lamentation, I wouldn't be surprised if this generation is better…

Reading ability must be the goal with the criticism though? If it's just listening to a story you might as well watch it, or play it.

There's a lot more to take away from books than just reading ability and story. You have to imagine/visualise the world the author is painting so it's a creative effort. You're inside the characters, hearing their experiences, thoughts and motivations which teaches empathy. The latter especially is typically missing from other mediums or done in a much more shallow way through flashbacks or exposition and is usually the reason "the book was better than the movie".

All that does come across in audio books though, you just miss the actual reading and imagining the voices.

Re: A majority of US teens are taking steps to limit smartphone and social media use

#112

Post by cheezburger » Tue, Sep 04, 2018, 6:20 AM UTC

_nothing wrote: post #91

madeuptempacct wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reading is a balance - not reading in childhood is missing out. Reading too much as an adult is running away from life, much like TV and video games. On the other hand, I am reading the Three Body Problem now, and I am learning some history and being forced to remember scientific principles I didn't review since high school. So I guess the lesson is quality and not doing too much of it. I stopped reading sci-fi that…

Kids today miss out if they're not online (which largely takes place on phones) and on social media. They miss out in social interaction, which is arguably even more vital to their development than reading books. Even when I was younger, so many interactions outside of school took place on AIM-- whole friendships and relationships were built off of these online interactions. Nowadays kids have to be on top of the lat…

They miss out the dogma way of life. What an opportunity. Yes, they will cry if you don't offer them the last Supreme apparel. The latest American-made-in-china smartphone. But you're not forced to educate your kids like most american does. In France we have a word for that "enfant roi" (king kid). Books offer you tools to think. TV, latest trends and twitch give you tools to boost your never-ending growth ego, self-esteem, self-approval, instant flood of dopamine gratification, and all this bullshit american psycho concepts.

Re: A majority of US teens are taking steps to limit smartphone and social media use

#113

Post by alanbernstein » Thu, Sep 06, 2018, 4:03 AM UTC

weliketocode wrote: post #99

alanbernstein wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I understand your general point, but I have never heard of a suggestion to regulate teenage phone use. Have you ever heard someone actually suggest this?

Yeah. There was just discussion here on hn recently of schools banning cell phones. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17671176

As a US citizen, "regulations" has the connotation of federal- or state-level; that's what I meant to ask about. I realize now it's not clear what the commenter I responded to meant, but that was my assumption.