Study reveals some teens receive 5,000 notifications daily, most spend almost two hours on TikTok
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  • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.worldEnglish
    242·
    1 year ago

    I don’t have kids yet but things like these make me wonder how a parent would deal with the kids having a smartphone. If you don’t get them one they’re going to feel left out as you can be sure as hell that most other kids have one. I’m no psychologist but to me if you buy your kid a smartphone then you basically risk having him/her destroy his/her brain cells and attention span with Tiktok and Snapchat. When I was a kid I did have a cellphone, and I had a PC too, but our house back then didn’t have internet and receiving thousands of notifications in a single day was definitely unheard of back then.

    • atomWood@lemm.eeEnglish
      131·
      1 year ago

      That’s a very valid concern. Personally, I think parents should keep their kids away from phones much longer. While I’ve only got a kid on the way, I’m hoping to keep them off of smartphones until high school.

    • Dawn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      1. disable notifications for most apps. I’m not sure if you can do it for iPhone, but any android phone, you can stop any app from sending any type of notification, even separating based on category. Eg. Turning off all youtube notifications except for security ones.

      2. Have your kid read books, this will do wonders in helping them get ahead near the start of their school life, as well as doing wonders on their creativity and imagination.

      3. Limit their screen time, and force them to find something else to do with their time. My mum did this to me, I hated it growing up, but I’m incredibly grateful now. It forced me to find ways to have fun without technology.

      4. Drop these restrictions down when they are a teenager. Teenagers want freedom. Hopefully, through making your kid read books while growing up, they will choose to read books in their teenage years. I know I did, and both my sisters did.

      Although this is the thoughts from someone who is 20, going off their own recent experience and from watching their siblings, I would definitely love to hear thoughts from others about this, tho.

    • macrocephalic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I hope to teach my kids the beauty of Do Not Disturb. I get a lot of notifications but they don’t notify me.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      1 year ago

      I’m no psychologist but to me if you buy your kid a smartphone then you basically risk having him/her destroy his/her brain cells and attention span with Tiktok and Snapchat.

      Things this has been said about before: internet, computers, video games, cable TV, broadcast TV, radio, comics, pulp novels, newspapers, the printing press, widespread ability to read/write…

      Hell, the first kid to utter a word probably got growled at.

      Just because we can’t keep up as we get older, doesn’t mean the kids are doomed. They live at a faster pace than us, it’s always been like this. It’s just technology didn’t change as fast.