How about kids under 18 don't get smartphones (Dumb phones okay?), don't get tablets either, has to go on the family computer in the kitchen again and especially don't get to have accounts on social media?
That would just about solve about most of the problems currently
1. It's hard to get a feature phone that supports 4G since most 3G bands here are being solely used for 4G.
2. Getting bullied for not having a certain phone, social media or something else others take for granted. Fortnite skins were bad enough.
3. Even my relatives have resorted to using tablets to keep their kids quiet. I've seen what happens when you let the internet bring them up for you. It's an uphill battle to undo negative influences.
4. I was brought up having a 'family computer' I was the main user of. The problem of having kids being glued to them for hours is worse than having a tablet that can be picked up and put down IMO, but I wouldn't mind it so much if they were using it to learn how stuff works.
You're trading some problems for other problems. It's how they're dealt with that matters.
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>Getting bullied for not having a certain phone, social media or something else others take for granted. Fortnite skins were bad enough.
15-20 years ago, kids were bullied for not owning the latest game consoles, not being allowed to watch PG-13 movies, not being allowed to drink soda, or having an early bedtime (or a bedtime at all if we are talking about late elementary school or early middle school). There is always at least one kid in every elementary school class that is raised like this. I was one of them in some cases.
>I was brought up having a 'family computer' I was the main user of. The problem of having kids being glued to them for hours is worse than having a tablet that can be picked up and put down IMO, but I wouldn't mind it so much if they were using it to learn how stuff works.
Not to mention that if you have multiple children, you will have them literally fight over the computer. Case in point, my older brother introduced my younger brother to Steam, Counter-Strike, and TF2 a decade ago. He was also introduced to things like Smosh and Minecraft, so he was horribly addicted. He would get into fights with my sister over the computer and she just wanted to check her Facebook. I would've been hooked on the computer as well (I just got into programming at the time), but I was forced into doing extra-circular activities.
You also have the problem of kids downloading too many freeware and free-to-play games over the Internet and eventually downloading malware on accident.
