Extra info and recommendations: The Smartphone Kids Are Not All Right #474291
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This is the way. pinned !
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52 sats \ 1 reply \ @gmd 21 Mar
I wonder if they feel happy without but still feel the need to be with their phone 99% of the time...
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You've got a point there. My phone is mostly just a glorified calling and texting device, but I'd be pretty stranded without it.
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Kids and devices is becoming an epidemic.
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I think it's already endemic. Ahahaha
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It is. And its not just kids. It's not just others. It is a battle for myself.
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Me too. I have a love hate relationship with my phone.
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Me too, but I have a good strategy. I have an old phone that can basically only make calls and send texts. It's hilarious, but it works!
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Do you pay for 2 plans? Or do you switch the SIM to your smart phone?
Or do you not have a smart phone?
I thought about the SIM switching solution, but someone told me that SIM cards are not designed to be inserted/removed constantly, and they'd probably break fairly quickly. Plus I called a provider...when you switch SIMS between phones, apparently it's one of the markers for fraud, and they may brick your phone.
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I own an older smartphone, and I only turn on the internet when I really need to ! :)
...when you switch SIMS between phones, apparently it's one of the markers for fraud, and they may brick your phone.
That mechanism is new to me, but it's a clever idea.
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At least in the USA, covid really got kids addicted to electronic devices. In order to keep going to "school", they had to use them. Now kids cant function without them.
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