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This tracks with my son’s observations on my wife’s phone use. She’ll tell him to stop watching youtube, then go right back to doing so herself. It doesn’t rea
by Aeolun 3mo ago
This tracks with my son’s observations on my wife’s phone use. She’ll tell him to stop watching youtube, then go right back to doing so herself.
It doesn’t really seem to compute how hypocritical that is.
- scotty79 3mo agoAbout as much as telling your kid to not drink beer while you are doing it yourself.
- Gigachad 3mo agoAside from the physical/chemical damage alcohol does to developing brains, alcohol addiction is bad for adults too. We just concede that after childhood you can make your own choice to ruin your life. Phone addiction is harmful to everyone at all age groups. It's not really the individuals to blame through. The tech companies have broken human psychology and developed something more addictive than drugs.
- dizlexic 3mo agoSpoken like someone who hasn't really done drugs.
- jb1991 3mo agoNumerous studies have supported this thesis, that phone addiction is identical to a chemical addiction.
- skybrian 3mo agoWhat’s an example of a study that you think is convincing?
- gyomu 3mo agoCan you share studies that show they’re “identical”? You’re not going to overdose from using your phone too much, or die from withdrawal if you suddenly stop using your phone, so that seems like a stretch.
- lucumo 3mo agoWhich studies? The claim is usually made without specific citations. The few studies I'm aware of show correlation between mental health issues and phone use, but don't show which way the causation runs. It's just as plausible that mental health causes more phone use, yet these message boards always like to blame the phone for the mental health issues.
- acessoproibido 3mo ago5% of all deaths worldwide can be attributed to alcohol. Phone addiction is not identical. In some aspects its similar but in most others not.
- philipallstar 3mo agoWell, in terms of driving, talking on a hands free phone might be worse for your driving than being over the limit[0]. And that's from pure addiction and distraction; there are no exogenous chemicals physically altering you. [0] https://www.trl.co.uk/uploads/trl/documents/TRL547.pdf https://www.trl.co.uk/uploads/trl/documents/TRL547.pdf
- jb1991 3mo ago> national safety organizations estimate that cell phone use is a factor in approximately 23% of all car accidents, contributing to millions of crashes nationwide U.S. Government info: https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/distracted-driving https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/distracted-driving
- airstrafer 3mo agoI get what you’re saying but phone addiction has absolutely ruined people’s lives.
- bowsamic 3mo agoWhy would I tell my son not to drink beer? He can do so as soon as it’s relatively safe to
- conductr 3mo ago“Relatively safe to” is a very official sounding rubric. I guess tell him that and see if you agree on the timing of when that safety threshold has been met. Telling your kid to not drink beer is giving them the courage to say no to drinking beer. I personally don’t just bark out rules with no context. I also have discussions with my kid about why drinking beer can go awry. We all expect that they will, likely before we’d feel it’s relatively safe. So I want him to at least know what’s in store and how to not make compounding mistakes.
- 21asdffdsa12 3mo agoBell curve leveling off right after return-warranty runs out
- bowsamic 3mo agoI don’t need to give reasons for my son to follow my orders
- mystifyingpoi 3mo agoThe phrase "drink beer" could mean anything from 2 beers on a sunny weekend to 6-pack every night. They are not comparable.
- tayo42 3mo agoWyh can't it be something like I don't want you to end up like me? I don't think it's hypocritical Changing habits is hard enough on it's own.parenthood and modern life makes that even more difficult
- r_lee 3mo agothis is what naive adults think, don't you remember how it was when you were a kid? I seriously, I feel like so many people just somehow magically forget their entire childhoods, maybe selectively? I lack the ability to lie to myself like that unfortunately
- fouc 3mo agoit's like a variation of the principle of "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it" a solipsistic viewpoint I suppose.
- tayo42 3mo agoI have no idea what your trying to say or what point you're trying to make.
- r_lee 3mo agoask an LLM or something, they seem to get the point just fine
- StefanBatory 3mo agoI have ADHD; I genuinely don't remember my childhood. If you told me my life started in secondary or high school, I would have believed you.
- mc3301 3mo agoI dunno if that is connected to ADHD, and I dunno if I have ADHD (though by reading the textbook* on it, it kinda seems I do)... but I genuinely don't remember my childhood either. *Taking Charge of Adult ADHD
- sp8 3mo agoI remember the same from my childhood: being told off by my Mum for staring at something out of the window while she was doing the same. Mentioned it, got told off by my Dad. Did it affect me? I remember it 40 years later!