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Re:Taking away iPhone made daughter a better person by stanford_labrat on Thursday June 13, 2024 @05:13PM (#40674840)
n=1 but i didn't have a smartphone until halfway through senior year of hs (2013-2014) whereas most of my peers had one from 2010 onwards. i wouldn't say socially stunted but popularity wise i would say not a full member of the social groups i was tangentially in, not in any group chats, etc.

deep 1-1 connections for the most part because yeah i was texting and messaging people but other than that...i think it's probably only worse now. there are group chats/discords for each social group probably and not having a smartphone would mean you can't participate.

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Re:Taking away iPhone made daughter a better person by simonw on Thursday June 13, 2024 @05:16PM (#40674876)
I'm willing to bet that social dynamics around phones at high school in 2024 are markedly different from 2014.
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Re:Taking away iPhone made daughter a better person by stanford_labrat on Thursday June 13, 2024 @05:19PM (#40674907)
yeah i agree, if it wasn't clear what i meant to say was that i functionally didn't have a smartphone until high school was over, and as a result i think i was socially excluded from a lot of things - the social groups from hs seem to have survived college (which may be a quirk of my specific hs) whereas i only talk to two people who i was deeply close with.

and i think it's even worse now.

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