Smartphone addiction
Discussion
Wacky Racer said:
Probably quite well as smartphones hadn't been invented so they wouldn't know what they're missing 
Its an interesting point though that covers all age groups, just some age groups are happier to admit it than others. I grew up in the era of PS2's & 3310's and I always remember my parents saying 'get off that phone' & 'I don't know how you spend so much time on that phone'. Yet whenever I go round there now they're constantly on a tablet or a phone! But whenever I bring that point up its different, apparently
g3org3y said:
Worth a watch
Smart phones and social media a massive contributing factor.
I'm not surprised. I consider myself fairly "robust" against this sort of thing, but even I have feelings of "that person's done so well at age x, I'm older, where have I gone wrong in life?" when I see stuff on facebook or instagram etc. So for younger more impressionable teens (in particular) those feelings must be heavily multiplied. Smart phones and social media a massive contributing factor.
Wacky Racer said:
Your post count on social media may be a little high to judge 
None of us need to be on here. We might not be on TikTok/snap chat, but I’d feel a sense of irony in judging kids for using their phones unnecessarily by replying to a thread unnecessarily.
"Ignorance is bliss"
I'm sure if the Victorians were wandering around having a great holiday in some rainy costal town saw pictures or videos of sun soaked European destinations they would have felt a little more short changed. When you don't know any different most are happy with their lot. Social media means everyone knows different, all the time, and it always looks amazing! So we're never ignorant that someone's getting it better than us.
I'm sure if the Victorians were wandering around having a great holiday in some rainy costal town saw pictures or videos of sun soaked European destinations they would have felt a little more short changed. When you don't know any different most are happy with their lot. Social media means everyone knows different, all the time, and it always looks amazing! So we're never ignorant that someone's getting it better than us.
Triumph Man said:
I'm not surprised. I consider myself fairly "robust" against this sort of thing, but even I have feelings of "that person's done so well at age x, I'm older, where have I gone wrong in life?" when I see stuff on facebook or instagram etc. So for younger more impressionable teens (in particular) those feelings must be heavily multiplied.
You can't feel as bad as me.At the same time that Elon Musk created Zip2, I created something similar for London. One of us managed to sell their version.
Wacky Racer said:
How would they have coped in 1980?
Same as I did in the 90s and early 2000s I suppose. Didn't know it existed, didn't need it.I feel like I am certainly becoming addicted to mine as many people on here will be too. I would like to give it up and get a crap phone but after reading this article this morning I already justified my phone to myself via my enjoyment of taking photographs of buildings on my travels.
It would take a few days but I think it would be good for my wife and me to get old crap phones.
Crook said:
TGCOTF-dewey said:
Tin of bostic and some plastic bags to cure the boredom?
I haven't thought about gluies in years! The one armed kids with their coats covering half their faces; we used to have to avoid them like the walking dead when we were riding crossers over the quarry.My inner city primary school was littered with empty bags first thing in a morning... The gluies used to sit in the various entrances and get high on an evening.
A friend of mine killed himself sniffing butane a few years later at Junior School.
At least kids are better educated in that respect these days.
Crook said:
I haven't thought about gluies in years! The one armed kids with their coats covering half their faces; we used to have to avoid them like the walking dead when we were riding crossers over the quarry.
In Scotland some shopkeepers were selling glue sniffing kits under the impression it wasn't against the law. Even after the police asked them to stop. 3 years jail
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaliq_v_HM_Advoca...
irc said:
Crook said:
I haven't thought about gluies in years! The one armed kids with their coats covering half their faces; we used to have to avoid them like the walking dead when we were riding crossers over the quarry.
In Scotland some shopkeepers were selling glue sniffing kits under the impression it wasn't against the law. Even after the police asked them to stop. 3 years jail
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaliq_v_HM_Advoca...
lizardbrain said:
I don't think it's smart phone addiction, it's social media addiction.
Smart phones are amazing. I absolutely could cope without one as I did up to about 2012 but I really wouldn't want to as they make life so much more convenient. In one device in your pocket you've got a phone, a camera, e-mail, a GPS/mapping, your entire music collection, an alarm clock, banking, shopping, live sport, a means of payment and apps for just about anything you can think of.
Social media on the other hand is very addictive and potentially very toxic. I ditched FB a few years ago, don't use Insta very much, never bothered with TikTok and only really use Twitter for news or F1 stuff.
I have a sister who spends hours doomscrolling the lot of them and I'm sure it's the reason she suffers with anxiety.
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