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Kids who own smartphones before age 13 have worse mental health outcomes: Study (abcnews.go.com)

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[–] RagnarokOnline@programming.dev 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

About 48% of young women who had smartphones by 5 or 6 years old reported having severe suicidal thoughts, compared to 28% of females who had smartphones by 13 or older.

In young men, 31% of those who had smartphones by 5 or 6 years old reported having severe suicidal thoughts and 20% of males who had smartphones by 13 or older reported having severe suicidal thoughts.

Damn, smart phones need to be a controlled substance.

[–] protist@mander.xyz 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The study...analyzed self-reported questionnaire results from more than 100,000 young adults between the ages of 18 and 24.

Damn, that's not a small sample

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I bet you 90% of those didn't have any parental controls or even parents monitoring their usage after the fact.

[–] scintilla@crust.piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Parental controls really do seem like an impossible tight rope to walk for parents too strict and the kid willvjust figure out a way around them defeating the point entirely. Too lax and they might as well not be there.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah it's really more about monitoring usage and educating them. The tablet/phone is not a babysitter, but many parents seem to treat it like one.

[–] scintilla@crust.piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I got way too much unrestricted access to the internet and I know it fucked me up. I was already genetically predisposed to having bad mental health but basically unrestricted internet access from the age of 8 did not help.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

The days of dial up were the wild west online. Waiting sometimes hours for your music and porn to download through Kazaa or Limewire. And inevitably getting something totally unrelated just to troll you.

[–] fishy@lemmy.today 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I've got a 4 year old, screens are like crack to them. If we don't watch any TV or YouTube all week he tends to forget about it, but watch one ten minute video and there's meltdowns for the next several days because he wants to watch constantly. Adults can't keep their phones out of their hands, and we all know social media is poison.

I can't imagine how neglectful a parent must be to give a 5 year old unrestricted Internet access.

That said, what Ragnarok server are you running or playing on? Been a good few years since I scratched that itch lol.

[–] RagnarokOnline@programming.dev 1 points 6 hours ago

Oh dang! I’m actually not playing right now either, but I always get the itch to go back to it around the new year.

If you haven’t tried it, the Ragnarok Origin Mobile game is surprisingly good. It’s not exactly the same, but it hit just the right level of nostalgia that I was looking for.

And /grats on the kiddo!