This is the scientific reason we're addicted to our phones..

[Daniel Nenni]

My guess is that the time my daughters spend looking at their phone exceeds the time they invest in just about anything else. I'm talking about thousands of texts per month and hundreds of hours streaming content (videos, Netflix etc...). And now there is a movie about it. Should we be concerned about the next generations of screenagers? People who obsessively aggregate content versus creating it? I certainly am. It's an addiction like anything else.

Scientific reason for phone addiction - Business Insider

Also:

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ABOUT THE FILM
Are you watching kids scroll through life, with their rapid-fire thumbs and a six-second attention span? Physician and filmmaker Delaney Ruston saw that with her own kids and learned that the average kid spends 6.5 hours a day looking at screens. She wondered about the impact of all this time and about the friction occurring in homes and schools around negotiating screen time—friction she knew all too well.

In SCREENAGERS, as with her award-winning documentaries on mental health, Delaney takes a deeply personal approach as she probes into the vulnerable corners of family life, including her own, to explore struggles over social media, video games, academics and internet addiction. Through poignant, and unexpectedly funny stories, along with surprising insights from authors, psychologists, and brain scientists, SCREENAGERS reveals how tech time impacts kids’ development and offers solutions on how adults can empower kids to best navigate the digital world and find balance.

 

[Staf_Verhaegen]

Should we be concerned about the next generations of screenagers?

Is it any worse than youngsters listening to music from groups with the members having long hair or a white guy singing black people music ? Or youngsters not going out to play but playing in front of the TV on their home computer (I mean here C64 or something like that).
I guess raising children will never be easy, no matter the advancement in tech.

 

[Allen Tabbert]

Is it any worse than youngsters listening to music from groups with the members having long hair or a white guy singing black people music ? Or youngsters not going out to play but playing in front of the TV on their home computer (I mean here C64 or something like that).
I guess raising children will never be easy, no matter the advancement in tech.

I agree that the issues today are similar to the problems of the past. What concerns many is that it may be that texting obsession is more extreme than some of these issues of the past. And texting can be very dangerous while driving, to the texting person as well as others. Watching endless TV doesn't present that type of risk.

 

[Daniel Nenni]

An interesting data point: My two daughters are much more attached to their phones for personal reasons than my two sons. My wife and I are about equal. Mine more for work, hers more for keeping in touch with family.

I really do see it as an addiction. I also see a problem with this whole "look at me" generational thing. They spend more time getting people to look at them than they do looking at themselves.

My kids and I talked about the whole privacy thing with their phones. They are unanimously in favor of Apple over the FBI yet they use their phones without even considering security. They load apps with impunity and use services like Snapchat thinking that their pics and messages actually disappear. Hopefully this whole ransomware epidemic will teach us all a security lesson.

Here is an interesting take on phone security:

CIA Cybersecurity Guru Dan Geer Doesnt Use a Cell Phone | WIRED

 

[Portland]

I think the reasons are more qualitative living reasons than quantitative. I use my cell from a few emails and a few calls but mostly to play chess.

 

[hist78]

I think the reasons are more qualitative living reasons than quantitative. I use my cell from a few emails and a few calls but mostly to play chess.

Lucky you!