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some types of content are indisputably disturbing for kids, like violence, war footage, sexualized content (esp. a sexualized female image targeting male kids & teens), etc
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I definitely agree. If my kid went to school in south side chicago I’d get bored getting texts 291 times per day, yea
I think you've missed my point. Yes, I want to know these things happen. No, they are not such an emergency that my kid needs to be taking time from class to text me about it. Most schools in areas with lots of crime or gang activity have metal detectors and other security at the doors. Violence is happening off hours, or between gang members either off campus (but close enough to warrant bringing people inside) or a…
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It's nothing. This study is narrow and shows no changes in cognitive capability, only sleep. A huge longitudinal study has shown screen time has minimal effect on cognitive ability or behavior of kids: https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/no-evidence-screen-time... There are far worse things in modern culture that are stressing out kids out.
Do you suppose that study is the final word on topic? Replication is an important part of the scientific process, as are converging lines of evidence.
We are ignoring the obvious which is that children's anxiety and depression is caused by the same things as adults.
Lifetime mobile phone abstinent human here. Sleep and mood (thumbs up) Waiting for everyone else to stop using the cursed devices and start to enjoy real life allowing themselves to be fully immersed in it for the first time(shrug) "Fully immersive" games are sought after but from my point of view people that use mobile phones have never been fully immersed in their physical reality before (its pretty sick bruh, ther…
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Please keep in mind, these lists are usually completely arbitrary and have very loose definitions of "school shootings", based around the usual theatrics of security and terror theater. Some examples that have been on these lists in the past: - A school resource officers firearm that accidentally went off when a child hugged around his waist. No injuries (there are other questions, but doesn't qualify in the same way…
>> Please keep in mind, these lists are usually completely arbitrary and have very loose definitions of "school shootings" While I get your point, I think when you have to be concerned about how 'school shooting' is defined your country has a big problem.
Disclosure: I work for a social media company. However I live in the UK. Most schools in the UK ban phones in school. The difference here is that in this study phones were taken away for 21 days, even after school. They lost access to the phone completely during that time. I am less convinced that we should wholesale ban phones for kids, because in the UK at least, there is no longer any culture of letting kids go ou…
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Disclosure: I work for a social media company. However I live in the UK. Most schools in the UK ban phones in school. The difference here is that in this study phones were taken away for 21 days, even after school. They lost access to the phone completely during that time. I am less convinced that we should wholesale ban phones for kids, because in the UK at least, there is no longer any culture of letting kids go ou…
Could this have died due to tech?
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some types of content are indisputably disturbing for kids, like violence, war footage, sexualized content (esp. a sexualized female image targeting male kids & teens), etc
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you can accomplish a whole lot of the same keeping the phone and deleting all social media apps and accounts (what I did). I still use my phone as a map and camera and many other things … my screentime went from 7+ hours to hardly ever over 40 minutes daily
That's not the point. The focus here is on removing the smartphone out of the system, not removing features from the smartphone.