Say iPhone for children evaluation: “Would I get my parents divorce?” | Smartphones

I It was fascinated to find out how this would work, but was also a bit freaky. I use my iPhone non -stop: four hours a day during the concept of school; Eight on vacation. Snapchat is most important, but I often follow friends on Tikkok and Instagram.

The prospect of having no access to apps or the Internet was only “UGH”. Some of me wanted to scream about the thought of being cut off from this wise phone. Would I want to divorce my parents?

I knew I would miss it. The sage telephone was only loaded with Google Maps, Spotify, Monzo, Uber, a calendar and the TFL -GO transport -app. None of this gave me a lot to do. There was news, but nobody really uses news and I can't remember when I last called a friend to a friend.

Let's start with the positive. Because the phone was so boring, I didn't want to use it [I] Put it down and talked more to my family. I spent less time in my room and was more productive – I even wrote this piece!

Sage people said it could take a month for the restrictions to get used to, but I don't have that long to test it. I can already tell you that if you are a teenager, you feel separated from all your friends and the rest of the world and that feels unfair. Having Tikok and Instagram is the way the world is now wired. If you take them away, it is quite difficult to stay in the loop.

If I were to stay on this phone, I would also feel excluded if I speak to my friends in real life, as so many of our sayings and jokes come here.

Social media is the way we know what everyone is going to do, and without them I felt that I would be left out of walking. We know that social media distracts, but it is now important for our social world. During the GCSES, some of my friends deleted apps, but they all recharged them within two days.

I don't worry about the damage as many adults. I found some of my closest friends by playing Roblox during the Covid closure and which is not allowed on this phone. I wasn't addicted to it. It was just fun. I have a lot of friends from other schools with whom I may not write an SMS or with which I do not write for weeks, but through SNAP I can keep in touch with you, see what you are doing and exchanging things like videos that keep our relationships that would not only happen with telephones. It has become a social glue and without it our networks could fall apart.

It is true that there are people who are negatively affected by the exposure to TikK accounts that promote a certain picture of beauty. Therefore, this limited phone could prevent this and reduce the risk of people who have to struggle with the body image.

And if your parents insist that you have a “stupid” phone, this could be an effective way to remove the shame of having a “brick” phone. If you were traveling with your friends and people check their phones, it would be really strange to pull out a nokia or not get a phone out.

Overall, I understand the intentions and the attraction to the parents, but if not all of them were changed, I would miss too much.