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Ha! Suck it!
You know my 'laws' comment was 100% sarcasm, and I totally agree phones are necessary today, to know about sport practice schedules, and whatever else. It is just the way things are becoming. That doesn't mean kids need every possible app out there and from what I understand, it isn't too terribly difficult to restrict access to particular apps. I guess there could also be ways to get around those restrictions too, just like Gianforte's stupid ass new law.

I kind of see parallels with restrictive parents and actual laws though....I hope some parents out there are getting their kids to want to not spend their lives on their phones but I am sure it is tough to do that when the parents (and grandparents) do the same. Reminds me of a lot of us here on the 'Fire.

I have to say this is a stupid question.

It's bullshit when a parent tells his kids they can't have a phone...and they is glued to the phone all day.

The kids are bored AF...sitting around watching their parents spend their free time on a phone.


Gotta set the example. Go shoot something.

My daughter is 12, we just recently got her a phone. She stays home alot alone and with no landline....things could go bad fast. It does not go to school with her, no social media ( we monitor it) but she can text or call her friends. She's good with the rules....for now

About time you added something useless.

I don't believe the smart phone is the 800 lb gorilla in the room. The fact that kids with parents that don't know or don't care about parental controls definitely is.

These kids have access to porn at their finger tips. In our day, we were lucky if someone was successful in stealing a penthouse.

The porn industry needs to be shut down. It has corrupted adult minds for years.

Think about what that is doing to the developing teen/pre-teen brain...

I'll admit to being hooked on the internet.


And to some extent everyone else I know.

If you are savvy to the Jr Woodchucks Guidebook, Wikipedia is close.

Dude, you spend 14 hours a day watching grasshoppers eat your alfalfa as fast as you can cut it. I'd have a big screen mounted to the front of the swather and a bottle of tequila in my lunch box!


LOL

Wab's? You been breathing too much of that Canadian smoke?

Haven't seen that here in the Outback of Cali.

We still have menus.

Although I have noticed some of the stores have the "wave the phone" over the credit card machine deal.

We don't have parking meters either. Probably get the Cool Hand Luke treatment if they did.

Good enough way to handle it.

Cheers brother!

Cheers buddy!

1980 my wife was designing a radio frequency synthesizer to sell to Motorola to create cell phones.
2000 I was designing power supplies for cell towers in China.
2020 our son was writing code for the android cell phones.

Today I had grandkids on my lap showing them videos on my cell phone. Donald Duck cartoons made in the 1930s are popular with the kids.

Last I saw, it was more than drunks.

A few years back I was talking with the Culinary Instructor at the voc school in Kotzebue. He told me that the day before, after warning an 18 year old student several times to put the phone away, he took it away from the student until after class.

The student cried.

Instructor then added, "And the girls are even worse!"

On the upside, a lot of people really don't listen to people when they speak, they hear them but they just don't listen.

They will have some presumed idea of what's going to be said after the first few words and immediately start thinking of their response instead of listening a person out.

Same people will read a text and comprehend it in its entirety, and it's documented, they can go back and reread it if needed.

Due to that, I'll often text workers on my job sites, even though I'm on the same site as they. It's the details that count sometimes.

I know people that text family members when they are in the same home with them at the same time.

It's the weird stuff, I got out of the shower 15 minutes ago and saw I had a text from my girlfriend, it says this, 'dinners at 6:30 at the Vintage, i made reservations yesterday. You need to pick up Ben at his office on the way there. His wife is going to be running late and she'll meet us at the restaurant.'

She's in my bedroom, I though she was still sleeping.

I don't have to remember any of that schit, I'll just go back and read her text again when I forget what time our reservations are this afternoon after I get done with my day, with a little luck I won't forget to stop and pick up my friend Ben.

You have just demonstrated how Iphones have taken over people's lives. It used to be called "the art of conversation" and people used to listen to the words that other people spoke to them.
These days, words spoken to a person's face are ignored, while full attention is paid to the Iphone.
The Iphone is like a religious cult and most people have joined.

Well, you see, you must be wrong on this. Everything is fine. Because some kid wrote cut-and-paste code for an app or build a desk or watched a mark rober video. All is well, you see.