Phone aren’t tools anymore. They are digital slot machines designed to increase usage. It’s well researched and established and an easy google.
Using tech for creating instead of consuming is for kids and young people.
You made me think about how when I started using the internet (early 2000s), it wasn't optimized like that and it was still so addictive. I can only imagine the damage it does to kids minds nowadays.
And, I love comic books, and this is different.
Comics of the 80s felt designed to let kids imagine a world bigger than the one they were in they had a place in a bigger world.
Stan Lee has some great interviews on it.
Not really sure how the previous posts relate to social media and mobile use in children which is well established
My kids have restricted mobile and no social media access.
But parents did use to think that comics would ruin their children - I'm responding to the disbelief in that.
It's all based on this book Seduction of the Innocent: https://www.amazon.com/Seduction-Innocent-Frederic-Wertham/d...
Here's an article about it: https://slate.com/culture/2008/04/the-campaign-against-comic...
The scare went all the way to Congress.
Here's a book about the history of the comic book scare: https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Cent-Plague-Comic-Book-Changed-Am...
Leaders of the tech companies don’t let their own kids use it. Easy google.
You have to ask people who grew up both with it and without it at the same time, not people who didn’t have it at all, or had nothing but tech.
Why young brains are especially vulnerable to social media: https://www.apa.org/news/apa/2022/social-media-children-teen...
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/dangers-of-social-media-f...
An interesting in between, look at the world as it’s changing way: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1047840X.2020.1...