I've got a lot of thoughts but my main one is I think this article is not very good lol like are you going after a poorly written article or disagreeing with a poorly written articles premise?
Of course this is just my opinion and not saying you're a bad writer or anything of the sort, but I do feel that I did not benefit in any way from reading this
If you're doing the former then, more power to you, you can do what you want but seems like a waste of time and energy, though in today's topsy turvy world of misinformation end pseudoscience, it is important to call out examples of poor reasoning. If you're doing the latter, frankly I disagree, so I'm inherently biased, but placing a powerful device full of applications crafted by neuroscientists to be as addictive, and therefore, as profitable as possible in front of a human brain that responds to colors, familiarity and novelty in habit forming ways, seems reasonable to believe it would have some effect? And not far fetched to see how it would be negative since many of the most popular apps are for profit and not for health?
And kids using phone screens aka alternate realities they do not have physical access to, in order to self regulate, that's not a big red flag? Wouldn't you prefer they learn to use their breath? Or some other technique based on their somatic experience, rather then just turning to a phone screen?
Never thought I'd read an angry old man "get off my lawn" article in defense of smartphones lol
I've got a lot of thoughts but my main one is I think this article is not very good lol like are you going after a poorly written article or disagreeing with a poorly written articles premise?
Of course this is just my opinion and not saying you're a bad writer or anything of the sort, but I do feel that I did not benefit in any way from reading this
If you're doing the former then, more power to you, you can do what you want but seems like a waste of time and energy, though in today's topsy turvy world of misinformation end pseudoscience, it is important to call out examples of poor reasoning. If you're doing the latter, frankly I disagree, so I'm inherently biased, but placing a powerful device full of applications crafted by neuroscientists to be as addictive, and therefore, as profitable as possible in front of a human brain that responds to colors, familiarity and novelty in habit forming ways, seems reasonable to believe it would have some effect? And not far fetched to see how it would be negative since many of the most popular apps are for profit and not for health?
And kids using phone screens aka alternate realities they do not have physical access to, in order to self regulate, that's not a big red flag? Wouldn't you prefer they learn to use their breath? Or some other technique based on their somatic experience, rather then just turning to a phone screen?
Never thought I'd read an angry old man "get off my lawn" article in defense of smartphones lol