We're a homeschooling family with a single Pinwheel phone shared among our three kids. It has no browser and no way to access social media. But it does have basic smartphone functionality, like phone, texting, photos/videos, music, etc.

In contrast, our kids tell us all the time that their peers in various extracurricular activities almost all have unrestricted phone and technology use.

I would like to hope that if we raise our kids with "healthy" technology use, then they will ultimately be better off.

But my fear is that unhealthy technology use is so pervasive that they'll end up in the same sort of unfortunate situation as being the only humans left after a zombie outbreak.