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submitted 4 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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.

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.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago

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?

[-] QBertReynolds@sh.itjust.works 22 points 4 months ago

The 35k comments in 11 months says otherwise.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] QBertReynolds@sh.itjust.works 27 points 4 months ago

Didn't say it was offensive. Just pointing out that you are, in fact, using a lot of social media.

[-] bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 months ago

no one thinks you said it was offensive, but you sure were flippant/“gotcha“ about it.

[-] QBertReynolds@sh.itjust.works -1 points 4 months ago

OP absolutely thought so. Their exact words were "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.".

That's not even what I was implying. I don't care how much someone uses social media. I saw a comment on a social media platform about not using social media and couldn't help but roll my eyes. Then I clicked their profile and saw that they're averaging more than 100 comments a day for almost a year.

Was it flippant? Absolutely. Was it a gotcha moment? Maybe, but only in the sense that I was planning on pointing out the hypocrisy in implying they don't use social media on a social media platform, and instead found the exact kind of social media addict that the article describes

[-] bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You should probably rethink how you communicate if you have to write all of this just to try and prove you were not being rude/kind of a jerk.

[-] QBertReynolds@sh.itjust.works -3 points 4 months ago

If anything I need to rethink how I communicate that I'm not offended by people using social media, but I am offended by hypocrisy. I thought for sure that's what I typed out. I don't care that it came off as rude.

[-] bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago

I have no doubt you don’t

[-] aniki@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Message boards are not social media no matter what the revisionists say. They are wrong.

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