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Re:Social media use has only minor effects on wellbeing: study by jovisjoseph on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @01:06AM (#20456643)
I'm a CS engineer graduated from a college in Kerala (South-India). The whole course is 4 years long and in these 4 years, the administration didn't allow students to bring Smartphones to the campus. Yes even for the students who are majoring in computer science. And even laptops were only allowed from 3rd year onwards.

Their justification was laptops and smartphones are just a distraction for students. And the rules where quite strict and if you bring any of these to the campus they would fine you heavily. All because of the notion that internet and digital presence is bad for you even if you are studying about these devices.

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Re:Social media use has only minor effects on wellbeing: study by dagenix on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @01:15AM (#20456683)
> All because of the notion that internet and digital presence is bad for you even if you are studying about these devices.

Uh, ok. A number of colleges also have curfews and gender segregated dorms. Those aren't good ideas either.

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