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		yamtaddle on May 15, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Kids who get smartphones earlier become adults wit... Smartphones are why social media is the way it is. It'd be a lot different, and a lot less-used, if you still had to go sit at a desk to use it.

ekianjo on May 15, 2023 [–]

Depression and mental health issues is directly coming from the software on mobile phones not the fact that you carry a computer in your pocket.

They focus on the wrong variable. It would be hard to ban mobile phones. But less hard to curb down on social media.

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