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> If phones are that bad for school student’s mental health, then they are probably equally bad for everyone’s mental health
Good point. Of course we know better; it's not the phone itself that harms mental health but the addictive apps and surveillance networks DataFarmers are allowed to deliver *using* the phone. See the recent announcement by Goggle that they plan to force everyone with an account to supply a bunch of personal information, then *publish* it 🤦♂️
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All very valid points.
I would also say, from my limited observations, that this 9yo was more distracted by having alerts appearing or texts or whatever they were, than any of their peers without a smart watch. This student also has a pattern of being distracted... so who really knows!?
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> distracted by having alerts appearing or texts or whatever they were, than any of their peers without a smart watch
Sure. But people don't get constantly distracted by ordinary watches. So again, it's not the watch itself that's distracting, but the dark patterns designed into it. For example the ways notifications are turned up to 1000 by default, to grab and monopolise attention. This is the phone-as-slot-machine phenomenon that The Social Dilemma talks about.
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