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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Think about it like this, tech companies spend billions of dollars on brainstorming ways to make their products and apps more addictive and eye catching to the human eye. This is a known fact about all the popular apps. They have no desire to make their products more safe for children because there is no incentive. On top of this, it is a known fact that most big tech workers do not allow their children to use these products. They go out of their way to send their children to “screen free” schools and pride themselves on providing a screen free childhood for their children. Why is this? I think most people know the answer. Unfortunately, there is A LOT of social pressure for children to have a phone. Children have been socially outcasted and parents feel bad for their children being left out. Naturally, parents respond by just giving the children the smart phone. We won’t know the implications of these actions for a while.

That being said, my opinion is to wait at least until the first year of high school for a smart phone. We can’t protect children forever and we need to use smart phone access as an opportunity to teach responsible internet consumption. If we never allow children to roam the internet, they will go crazy once they finally have free access as an adult. Same thing as never allowing your child to have junk food. They will gain 50 lbs the first year of college because they are making up for all the lost time and never learned proper/moderate consumption. [/quote]
This “if you restrict them they’ll go Ka-RAZY!” Attitude has been proven false. Don’t give your 13 year old access to porn and predators. Nobody is telling you to wrap them in bubble wrap and lock them in a tower, but you have a duty to not let your kid roam free is the cesspool that is the internet. [/quote]

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