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The Iphone is a destructive device and causes major harm to young kids.
My brother's grandson won't take karate lessons. Won't play soccer, refuses to get a [free] bicycle from my brother.
Instead, it is 17 hours a day on the damn Iphone.

It isn't just the kids.
My old paramedic buddy, Tony, was up here for a party 12 years ago, we sat there for 2 hours talking about wild ambulance calls we ran, nurses we "knew" etc. He had a flip phone.
Two years ago he was up here, he was 60 years old, we would talk for 2 minutes, 3 minutes max, and then he pulled out his Iphone, for a minimum 4 minute texting session. Two minutes of live conversation, followed by 4 minutes of texting. It went that way nonstop for 2 days. I haven't invited Tony back.

Big Brother is watching YOU!

L.W.

You cannot depend on cell phones. They're traceable on January 6th, but signals for voters at remote ballot boxes are not reliable.

Check the corners of random cars.......you can easily detect those that use their cell phones too much.

It's hit and run bumper cars out there.

That's good 👍

Comical thread.

Sheesh...what a baby.



You can place parental controls on your kids phones.
Time limits, block various sites, be able to monitor all of it.

On second thought...you might as well tip over and wail about how all is lost.

Oh fugg off Gramps!


You may be riding a kids saddle yet but you ain't no kid.


No need for laws at all...just parental controls on kids phones....and also it helps to act like a parent and set limits and stick to them.


The biggest group of people bitching about the kids and phones......gave the kids phones so they wouldn't have to parent or interact with their dumb kids.



Fact.

People bitching about cell phones and social media use with tens of thousands of posts on this website..🤣🤣🤣

So much angst and virtue signaling.

Addicted^

Jim1611: I am seeing warning signs that our younger generations are NOT as social and "normal acting" as previous generations that grew up, NOT, glued to their "smart phones/electronics"!
I worry about this "addiction", and also worry about the less than "well rounded" young adults and what they are now turning into (witness slumload and skhunt).
I worry about the future of our young people/society/country - and I think electronics and phone addiction is part of the problems we are seeing today.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

It's not really the phone itself that's the problem. It's the ability to access social media or media in general that's the problem. It gets folks, especially kids, hooked on quick hits of dopamine. That, combined with constant access, creates an addiction.

Smart phones are great otherwise. Sure makes working in the field a lot easier. Having access to maps, plans, and GPS is a serious time saver. Teams calls right from the truck, instead of having to meet up in some office and waste half a day on travel.

Did anyone mention that he doesnt have a job or the means to feed himself or pay for the $1100 digital toys? Great opportunity to disable it and shut down the 'net at home and then say "but what about your device?" or some such.

The smart phone issue, and it IS an issue, is the 800lb gorilla in the room in our society. Its impacts are far worse than most imagine.

It cant possibly be overstated.

Turn it off. Cancel the plan. Pop the Simm. Period. He doesnt have the ability to turn it on. At the very least, he'll get a job to get what he wants.

i cant speak for the low accident rate in rural areas, nor in urban centers. In suburbia, the figure is roughly 100%. Not exactly, but roughly.

I cant find anything to disagree with here. You are not wrong.

Not really. It's people discussing problems they have seen in the manner in which YOUNG PEOPLE access & use their cell phones/smart devices.

There's a difference.

What some old employed white dude (most of this site, Id guess?) does is a far cry from what impressionable children do during thier most formative years.

Its actually night and day.

But... conflate away if it helps you ring your bell.

Wonder how many old people’s lives were ruined when they were young by a stick and a hoop…….

Had to laugh at my nephew. Little fugger would look at his phone for hours. We have him crap about being addicted to his phone and not wanting to do much else. He walked out into his Dad’s shop one day, started piling wood up next to the table saw and mitre saw, asked my brother in law for some basic instruction, and built himself spartan but very fictional desk.

Some week later, he walks out, same deal, but asks where the power switch is on the welder. Brother in law shows him, he starts running beads, practicing, welding pieces together, and taught himself how to weld. He’s pretty good.

Turns out he was learning all this stuff on YouTube on his phone.

Now he’s 19, while he looks at his phone a lot, nobody gives him much crap about it anymore. He’s pretty handy around the shop, and he can 3-D print some prettty cool stuff (again, learned how on his phone). Works a job in town while an engineering major in college.

But he can’t drive a stick shift so his whole life is probably screwed…..this place is hilarious sometimes…..

Very well-stated, crockett. The devastating impact of Iphones has hardly been understood.