What Happens When Your 11-Year-Old Says No to a Smartphone?

Re:What Happens When Your 11-Year-Old Says No to a Smartphone? by meiraleal on Sunday November 05, 2023 @05:08PM (#38156143)

> They are digital slot machines designed to increase usage

You made me think about how when I started using the internet (early 2000s), it wasn't optimized like that and it was still so addictive. I can only imagine the damage it does to kids minds nowadays.

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Re:What Happens When Your 11-Year-Old Says No to a Smartphone? by kouru225 on Sunday November 05, 2023 @05:16PM (#38156218)

This feels so much like 80s parents lamenting how comic books are ruining kids minds.

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Re:What Happens When Your 11-Year-Old Says No to a Smartphone? by Dah00n on Sunday November 05, 2023 @05:22PM (#38156273)

Except everyone knows it is true. Especially Meta, but a brave whistleblower made sure we all know. Well, at least I thought everyone know.

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Re:What Happens When Your 11-Year-Old Says No to a Smartphone? by xrd on Sunday November 05, 2023 @05:20PM (#38156248)

Do you have kids? I've got kids, and addiction to tech is a real thing. Being a parent is so so hard, and then you add this thing that is designed to trigger every impulse. Every parent I know says "I'm so glad I didn't have to raise my kids with smart phones."

And, I love comic books, and this is different.

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Re:What Happens When Your 11-Year-Old Says No to a Smartphone? by doubled112 on Sunday November 05, 2023 @05:24PM (#38156286)

I notice a big difference in behaviour between even old games (think SNES, PS1) and modern games. There's definitely something in the new ones.

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Re:What Happens When Your 11-Year-Old Says No to a Smartphone? by j45 on Sunday November 05, 2023 @05:50PM (#38156518)

Seems like a 4 month old spicy throwaway take account.

Comics of the 80s felt designed to let kids imagine a world bigger than the one they were in they had a place in a bigger world.

Stan Lee has some great interviews on it.

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Re:What Happens When Your 11-Year-Old Says No to a Smartphone? by j45 on Sunday November 05, 2023 @05:49PM (#38156512)

Parents lamented about comic books? Link?

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Re:What Happens When Your 11-Year-Old Says No to a Smartphone? by philipswood on Monday November 06, 2023 @07:17AM (#38161555)

If you far enough back parents lamented chess.

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Re:What Happens When Your 11-Year-Old Says No to a Smartphone? by philipswood on Monday November 06, 2023 @08:53AM (#38162564)

Found a link for that: https://gizmodo.com/chess-was-once-deemed-a-menace-to-societ...

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Re:What Happens When Your 11-Year-Old Says No to a Smartphone? by j45 on Monday November 06, 2023 @10:42AM (#38164050)

Doubtstorming doesn’t make it legitimate or not

Not really sure how the previous posts relate to social media and mobile use in children which is well established

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Re:What Happens When Your 11-Year-Old Says No to a Smartphone? by philipswood on Monday November 06, 2023 @11:17AM (#38164553)

Agreed.

My kids have restricted mobile and no social media access.

But parents did use to think that comics would ruin their children - I'm responding to the disbelief in that.

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Re:What Happens When Your 11-Year-Old Says No to a Smartphone? by kouru225 on Monday November 06, 2023 @02:04PM (#38167168)

I was wrong about the era, apparently the height of the comic book scare was the late 1950s, but it continued to the end of the century as far as I remember.

It's all based on this book Seduction of the Innocent: https://www.amazon.com/Seduction-Innocent-Frederic-Wertham/d...

Here's an article about it: https://slate.com/culture/2008/04/the-campaign-against-comic...

The scare went all the way to Congress.

Here's a book about the history of the comic book scare: https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Cent-Plague-Comic-Book-Changed-Am...

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Re:What Happens When Your 11-Year-Old Says No to a Smartphone? by j45 on Sunday November 05, 2023 @05:49PM (#38156504)

A big difference between then and now is there was more creating and much less to consume.

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