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Re:Dad takes son to Mongolia to get him off his phone by DougN7 on Thursday January 02, 2020 @01:53PM (#21938418)
Agree completely. I personally know an otherwise normal healthy teenage girl that cries and can’t sleep at night from anxiety if she doesn’t have her phone. I think there are many more people like this than we realize.
Re:Dad takes son to Mongolia to get him off his phone by xwowsersx on Thursday January 02, 2020 @01:55PM (#21938446)
Yeah. I myself dismissed concerns that people have expressed because I tend to be suspicious of alarmism. But there is a real problem, a real addiction. Sure, it might not be the same as a chemical addiction to alcohol or something, but that doesn't make it any less real. I've seen firsthand how relationships have been destroyed, in large part, due to smartphone addiction.