Comments on: Bogus Teen Cell Phone Study

By: steve

steve — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 02:57:48 +0000

Parents, if your GOOD parents,, Forget the Phone DEMAND what time they are home at night,, if if not,, do what the parents did 50 years ago, forget this talk to your teen,, MAKE THEM PAY ATTENTION.. right or left hand it does Work

By: ab

ab — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:36:19 +0000

what are you talking about. not too long ago (<100 yrs) it took 3 hours by horse or walking or 20 mph car to see a neighbor. never mind, a 2 week steamship trip across the ocean to see family. traveling around space is dead easier than it was. perhaps cell phone augments rather than reduce face-to-face contact. for that matter, how the heck would i even respond to darkcutter, kennedy, staffpsy roughly 5 years ago without blogs and so forth. sure i dont know you but i can begin to correspond. sent via a cellphone.

By: darkcutter

darkcutter — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:42:11 +0000

I can completely see how cell phones would reduce face-to-face contact. Why get up and go see someone when all you have to do it reach for your phone?

By: kennedy

kennedy — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 17:20:45 +0000

cell phones do promote social isolation and it does subsitute face to face interactions. i had to tell the teens that i work with not to contact me via txt message or email. i told them they needed to make an appointment and talk to me face to face. it ended up decreasing our conversations.

By: shadowhawk

shadowhawk — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:31:15 +0000

That study is crap. Sometimes I think people like that are just against people, especially younger people, using cell phones in general.

By: staffpsy

staffpsy — Fri, 26 May 2006 01:34:07 +0000

I wrote about the same story today and had the same reaction. there is no plausible theoretical link that I could decipher.