• weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    How you use the device is what matters. I use my smartphone to read books for example, and on YouTube I watch a lot of informative content.

    What’s addictive is the pre-installed social media apps on our smartphones, that is what needs to be regulated.

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      24 hours ago

      Wow, you sound much smarter and seem to have so much more self control than all of those dumb people getting addicted to their phones.

    • Microw@lemm.ee
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      21 hours ago

      The problem is that at the moment the education ministries of EU member states can not regulate social media apps. We just had the identical discussion in Austria. They need to ban smartphone use in schools at the moment, because it’s the only legal route to get those teenagers away from social media during school hours.