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The anti smartphone revolution

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Bassman59:

--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on July 26, 2022, 07:44:02 pm ---
--- Quote ---Posting here, especially in a topic like this counts as using social media. So anyone here that claims to be free from
social media is kidding themself.
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Pedantically you're right, but practically I think there is a big difference between the likes of this forum and Facebook, which is what is normally meant by 'social media'. There is no timeline here, for a start.

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Usenet newsgroups were a form of social media.

So, too, were dial-up BBSes.

Hell, even Ham Radio is a social network.

bd139:
The problem is not smartphones. It’s addicts. Cutting it out is an extremist position and that’s almost never the solution. People just want attention for being different.

Consider I’m sitting here on a bus which I paid for with my phone, after going out for a meal which was organised on a social network on a phone. I took photos with a phone. I am listening to music with a phone while I’m writing this with a phone.

People are welcome to deprive themselves from the benefits but I’m going to jump in that gap and enjoy the actual real life interactions and leverage that the thing gives me.

themadhippy:

--- Quote --- People just want attention for being different.
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Or people are anti social and dont want to be at everybody's beck an call 24/7,its also worth getting rid off for the confusion it causes company's and officialdom

voltsandjolts:

--- Quote from: bd139 on July 26, 2022, 08:10:48 pm ---The problem is not smartphones. It’s addicts.

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It's kids I worry about though. At such a young age I don't think they have the ability to regulate their own use.
Flame me, but I think kids should not legally be allowed smart phones until they are 14 years (simple mobile with text, OK).
It is absolutely not where they should be learning social skills. It would make classrooms a little more controllable.
The kids are literally cannon fodder for evil advertisers and online bullies, some from their own school.

At the moment, its a free-for-all, a huge social/mental health experiment and we'll find out the results for society in 20 years.

themadhippy:

--- Quote --- but I think kids should not legally be allowed smart phones until they are 14 years (simple mobile with text, OK).
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make it 13 so its inline with coppa,not that that seems to apply anymore

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