Teens’ Heavy Cellphone Use Could Signal Unhappiness, Study Finds
The Los Angeles Times reports on a bogus study:
A survey of 575 South Korean high school students found that the top third of users — students who used their phones more than 90 times a day …
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I wrote about the same story today and had the same reaction. there is no plausible theoretical link that I could decipher.
That study is crap. Sometimes I think people like that are just against people, especially younger people, using cell phones in general.
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.
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?
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.
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