Can we talk about the effects of constant smartphone use on the average young person?
Zoomers get so weirded out now when you talk to them unprompted, social media has rotted people's brains, they simply short circuit when a stranger approaches them to say something to them without context or advance notice. Even the advance notice isn't enough sometimes, I've seen grubhub driver interactions where the customer gets taken aback by unknown stranger approaching them with a food bag and saying their name repeatedly (user? for user?) while the customer is frozen up in some weird mental loop.
As a teacher, we see students exhibit literal withdrawal symptoms if we take their phones away. Some of them start shaking.
When I was a kid, it was weird to take an expensive toy into school in case it got lost or damaged. Now kids are taking financed phones into school. It's weird.
Alexander Hughes
There's a difference between a zoomer and an addict
Very well might depend on the state, in a local school here in czechia, the teachers started taking phones from students and the students just started bringing tabletop games into class
7 years even learned english from here, originally I was just browsing porn boards for images
Nathan Morales
idk, i joined in 2019
Jace Baker
the biggest problem with phones imo are cameras, they can lead to all sorts of lawsuit problems
Blake Williams
I'm a zoomer, born 2000 and got my first phone 2020. I can tell you first hand that it has effects on memory and shit, probably because subconsciously you know you can just look something up at anytime instead of having to remember anything. Also it dims creativity, any time in class or at work a normal person would be daydreaming or imagining shit or just combing their thoughts because they're bored, they're taking out their phone and surfing the web instead. Stuff like daydreaming is how your brain makes new connections and scenarios and grows little by little, and when you don't do it for a long period of time, it gets harder to visualize. I'm planning to ditch this phone as soon as possible, but unfortunately I live in a dying small town where there's next to nothing to do with no friends, so I'll have to put up with it a little longer.
Isaiah Nelson
You act like this is something new, I would get my psp confiscated repeatedly after bringing it to school and playing it in the bullshit media lab classes where you didn't really learn anything and you were given labs and long deadlines for braindead simple projects.
This was back when having your phone out in class would get it taken away, there weren't enough people with smartphones and it made you an easy target. I can't imagine what it's like now.
Grayson Butler
that was actually the reason they started taking them from what I heard, some mf made an instagram account and started posting pictures of the teachers
Joshua Nelson
you have to be at least 30 to post on this website
Jose Brooks
>there are people in this itt thread born after 9/11
No, the rules were pretty clear, no texting in class, everyone knew they were skirting the rules and if you got caught you knew the deal.
Are you really ruining lives over kids sexting each other? That carries sex offender charges and they might not even know it.
Leo Phillips
nakadashi
Justin Nguyen
>Are you really ruining lives over kids sexting each other? Sorry how is this my fault? If they're sending pictures of their genitals to each other, questions like: - Why did they have unmitigated access to a camera connected to the internet? - Why was the culture they were raised in amiable to this type of behaviour? - Why did their fucking parents not know what their kids were up to? I'm legally required to report shit like this or it's on my head.
Colton Ramirez
>That carries sex offender charges and they might not even know it. only in shitholes
Caleb Watson
>why #1 adults >Why #2 adults >Why #3 They deliberately don't teach kids about sex and let the internet do it for them now.
Austin Martinez
I'm an ex-teacher and, anecdotally, it has absolutely rotted their brain and robbed them of their attention and ability to even be bored. Being bored is remarkably important as it teaches self-sufficiency and regulation.
Couldn't even get these stupid retarded faggots to put their phone down for an hour to watch a movie that they fucking picked. I was also at a really well off school - little to no minorities and high socioeconomic status.
The only students I had that were still normal were the athletes because they actually understood how to focus on shit.
If you have some sort of hub you go to that's at your house, that's fine. About 1 or two hours of surfing the web in that case is okay, as long as it isn't something you have 24/7 access to in the palm of your hand, because then you have incentive to actually remember the stuff that your seeing and reading. I wish they made phones that *only* did calls and texts (don't say flip phones, because all the ones I've seen still have shitty browsers) It's basically what Socrates said about written documents, except, actually true in this case.
Leo Williams
Do kids seriously use their phones in class and it doesn't get taken away anymore?
Joshua Taylor
cant take them away cuz karen parents will complain
Blake Wood
can't take it away in burgerstan because muh rights and the kid might come with a gun instead
James Murphy
It's only gotten worse. I don't want to take phones away because they're expensive, and if they get stolen or whatever after I've taken it, it's then on me. Parents need to be less lazy faggots, stop giving their toddlers iphones for games, and put in a bit of effort. Young millenial parents are slightly better at managing this type of shit (and will confiscate electronics etc.) but gen X are hapless faggots.
Ryan Ward
kys faggot kys faggot
Connor Wright
>Millennials spend the 2010s getting absolutely DUNKED on day in and day out by boomers >Still so upset they take their frustrations out on their little siblings so they can feel like grown ups too You'll NEVER be one of us, junior. Now go get your fuckin shinebox!
