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

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[–] 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.