Adults and teens concerned about their screen time are turning in their smartphones for “dumber” models.
Buried in the settings of many smartphones is the option to look up how much on average you are staring at your phone per day.
It can bring an uncomfortable realisation, that what was supposed to be a useful piece of technology has become an obsession.
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According to a study by Harvard University, using social networking sites lights up the same part of the brain that is also triggered when taking an addictive substance. This has raised concerns about phone habits among youth.
In the UK, research by Ofcom estimates that around a quarter of children aged five to seven years old now have their own smartphone.
Links have been shown in some studies between use of social media and a negative effect on mental health - especially in children.
Social media? My phone is in my hand all day so I can play Word Cookies.
And you can have my Word Cookies app when you pry it from my cold, dead… um… cloud backup?
The 35k comments in 11 months says otherwise.
You mean the comments I make while sitting at a computer? The comments I make because I am seriously ill and not working and have very low energy and thus are not able to do much else?
Sorry my wanting to have the small amount of human contact I have outside my own family on a daily basis is so offensive to you.
Didn’t say it was offensive. Just pointing out that you are, in fact, using a lot of social media.
Message boards are not social media no matter what the revisionists say. They are wrong.
I never said I wasn’t. So it sounds to me more like you wanted to point it out for another reason.
You caught me. I’m biased against people who play Word Cookies.
People sure seem hell-bent on giving me shit on a regular basis for posting a lot, so I’m sorry if I assumed that was your intent.
Man, you really blew the fuck up over a tiny comment. Is this why you have zero social contact? Because youre an asshole?
Maybe that’s why or maybe because people are constantly giving me shit for posting a lot. Or maybe both.
You are certainly free to think I’m an asshole and people are right to not spend time with me if you wish.