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Avoiding the silly title, a better question is the smartphone fundamentally different then those other mediums? The ability for addiction seems to indicate, to
by rhcom2 9y ago
Avoiding the silly title, a better question is the smartphone fundamentally different then those other mediums? The ability for addiction seems to indicate, to me at least, that the smartphone might be different.
- webkike 9y agoYou can become addicted to TV and this is widely portrayed in arts and entertainment
- wybiral 9y agoI think television and video games can be just as addictive. Edit: And video games don't enable me to call my parents, look up a recipe, or check a map.
- ekianjo 9y ago> The ability for addiction seems to indicate, to me at least, that the smartphone might be different. Why is it different? Don't you remember folks sitting in front of TVs the whole day or night about 20 years back?
- LacertineForest 9y agoI think the difference is that you can't take a TV everywhere you go. Smartphones are ever-present. I agree with the comments that video games and TV can be just as addictive, it's just that, as the article points out, phones are often the first and last thing kids see each day. I generally dislike framing entire generations as "doomed", but the data presented do at least suggest reason for concern. I actually read the article thinking that it is already/will get better over time with awareness, at least as it pertains to smartphone usage.
- mping 9y agoAnd back in the day TV was mostly passive. smartphone lets you choose what and when you want to do things. If one looks at mental illness evolution, one might guess how different generations are across time; not necessarily caused by smartphones but surely and indicator of a generation's mental health.
- ekianjo 9y ago> smartphone lets you choose That's not really the case when apps are designed to make you come back to them the whole time like Facebook and Twitter.
- ellius 9y agoYeah I actually read the whole thing, the title is a terrible reflection of the actual content, which is thoughtful and makes no grand implications about a “ruined generation.”