The study’s authors recommended restricting smartphone and social media access
This comes out of nowhere in the article. It is not smartphones per se. It is the social media kids access that does it, and no wonder, we all know how insane that is for an adult mind.
While probably not possible on this scale of a study, they should have looked how much % of phone use was social media, and I am sure they’d have found a correlation between all the negatives they listed and the amount of social media they consumed.
That also means taking away smartphones is no use here if kids can access the same social media via computers.
Yeah “smartphones” are the issue here…
This comes out of nowhere in the article. It is not smartphones per se. It is the social media kids access that does it, and no wonder, we all know how insane that is for an adult mind.
While probably not possible on this scale of a study, they should have looked how much % of phone use was social media, and I am sure they’d have found a correlation between all the negatives they listed and the amount of social media they consumed.
That also means taking away smartphones is no use here if kids can access the same social media via computers.