Internet in your life in the year 2021?

[Szdfan]

2023

Gen Z goes retro: Why the younger generation is ditching smartphones for ‘dumb phones’
https://theconversation.com/gen-z-goes- ... nes-204992

.. Digital detox

Another reason why people might be purchasing flip phones is to do a digital detox and cut down on screen time.
A digital detox refers to a period of time when a person refrains from using their electronic devices, like smartphones, to focus on social connections in the physical world and reduce stress.

In 2022, people in the U.S. spent more than 4.5 hours daily on their mobile devices. In Canada, adults self-reported spending about 3.2 hours per day in front of screens in 2022. Children and youth had about three hours of screen time per day in 2016 and 2017.

Excessive smartphone usage can result in a number of harmful side effects, such as sleep disruption.
Just over 50 per cent of Canadians check their smartphones before they go to sleep.

The blue-light emitted from smartphones may suppress melatonin production, making it harder to sleep and causing physiological issues including reduced glucose tolerance, increased blood pressure and increased inflammatory markers. ..

^^Several points in the text.

?? / Nokia 2720 V Flip - now available at Verizon

It feels weird that things from the early 2000s are now considered retro and cool. It's a bit like how vinyl records are making a comeback. My younger daughter is fascinated with the 80s the way I was fascinated by the 50s and 60s as a kid.

[Josh]

That Nokia is simply a garden variety Android phone. A number of Android phones that fold up are on the market right now.

[temporal1]

2025
tech problems not resolved, esp wrt teens+children.
(i believe) the pandemic dramatically increased the use of the internet+tech by children - REMOTE school was forced.

2021 / P.3:

when i began MD, some were allowing basic cell phones - with camera lenses blocked, scratched off, painted over.

Didn't catch this the first time. What is the thinking behind that? Never heard of that one before...

Groups that had not accepted the camera, the digital camera, or messaging photos to each other via phones.

On pages 3+4, some discussion of (legally) limiting access - children+teens. Not resolved.

2018 / Technology's Impact on Anabaptist Society, and More Specifically, Youth
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2019 / Tech leaders opt-out of tech schools
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