#Smartphones News

[reasonsforhope]

"Parents of tweens will likely be aware of the daily battle over when to give their child a smartphone. They are probably forced into discussing it over breakfast, on the school run, at bedtime – after all, no kid wants to be left out if their friends all have one.

Which is why a town in Ireland came together to devise a solution.

Parents and teachers in Greystones, County Wicklow, launched a town-wide ‘no-smartphone code’ in May, when headteachers from the town’s eight primary schools wrote to parents asking them to sign up to the ban. By coming together en masse, the thinking went, parents could do away with the peer pressure around smartphone ownership.

Now, ministers in the Irish cabinet have approved new guidelines on the banning of smartphones in school, which were brought by education minister Norma Foley on 7 November. The proposals would help parents to collectively implement smartphone bans, with government support. Ministers are also considering outlawing the sale of smartphones to all children of primary school age.

“We can already see smartphones creeping into our primary schools,” explained Rachel Harper, headteacher at St. Patrick’s school, which led on the initiative. “Parents, even at the junior end, were already getting worried about what age their kids were going to be asking for smartphones.”

Parental concerns around the dangers of smartphones are justified, according to the latest scientific research. In 2020, a systematic review of academic studies investigating smartphones, social media use and youth mental health found that, in the last 10 years, mental distress and treatment for mental health conditions had risen in parallel with the use of smartphones by children and adolescents...

There’s also a desire, said Christina Capatina, a Greystones parent whose daughters are aged 11 and nine, to prioritise face-to-face interactions over digital ones for as long as possible. “Childhood is getting shorter,” she said. “It’s really important for them to be in a place where they can be happy and enjoy being out, just being children.”

Parents in Greystones are now empowered to hold off giving their kids access to the devices until the age of 12, when they transition to secondary school in Ireland.

Eight months since the ban came in, what has its impact been? “It has completely solved the problem,” said Capatina. “Instead of having long conversations about it, this is so simple.”

The code is voluntary, so some parents have chosen not to take part, but enough have signed up to create a sense of phoneless-ness being the norm. While some in the media have argued that the code demonises technology, Harper refutes this: “We’re not against technology. We’re not against phones. We’re just simply asking them to wait till secondary school.” [Again, that's age 12 in Ireland.]

She said the launch of their no-smartphone code led to school principals all over the world getting in touch with messages of support, an indication it seems of how universal parents’ fears over childhood smartphone use are.

And with ministers now working on guidelines for communities that wish to follow in Greystones’ footsteps, Harper is proud of all she and fellow parents have achieved. “It’s nice to be an ambassador in a positive way,” she said.

-via Positive.News, November 17, 2023

#smartphone #parenting #primary school #technology #big tech #mental health #teen mental health #ireland #peer pressure #protecting children #good news #hope

[godwantsit]

#museum #Rijksmuseum #rembrandt #smartphone #new generation

[itsbeenliketenyearsitsprettywild]

I just came to a terrifying realization: only the characters confirmed to use smartphones have been hearing voices.

Are.. are the characters who’d have access to internet hearing us, the internet audience, talk about them?

#MILGRAM #milgram theories #Milgram Theory #yuno milgram #fuuta milgram #mahiru milgram #Yuno Kashiki #fuuta kajiyama #mahiru shiina #how most english speakers tagging the characters anyway? pretty new here #wanted to point this out for more hardcore theorists #to be clear: kotoko also uses internet but doesn't seem to have a smartphone and probably wouldn't look at social media #though the fact that she's last means we're gonna have to wait A WHILE to check

[tamapalace]

Tamagotchi x WidgetClub 90’s Vintage Smartphone Theme

Bandai Japan has patterned with WidgetClub to transform your smartphone widget experience! WidgetClub is an application that makes it easy to change the home screen of your smartphone or tablet. The company is based in Japan, and is very popular there. The collaboration brings vintage Tamagotchi graphics to icons, widgets, and wallpapers!

There are even a lot of fortune-telling widgets and weather widgets where the illustrations change according to the results, and GIF widgets where the Tamagotchi’s move! Be sure to check it out.

The sale of the Tamagotchi theme will start on Saturday, January 13th, 2024 15:00 for ¥680. The theme includes a total of 10 types of widgets (weather, clock, fortune-telling, anniversary, count, GIF, memo, photo, and schedule), 28 types of icons, and 1 wallpaper. Your device must be running iOS 15.1 or later, Android 10.1 or higher. Be sure to check it out here!

#tamapalace #tamagotchi #tmgc #tamatag #virtualpet #bandai #widgetclub #news #smartphone #theme #collaboration

[ardri-na-bpiteog]

Modern life just has...too much stuff to keep track of. Too many deadlines and logins and accounts and emails and messages on multiple different platforms and constant bombardment of information and I can tell my brain is really struggling to manage it all.

#while smartphones and the expansion of the Internet have been helpful in many ways #a lot of things were just...simpler or slower back in the day and I think we're becoming overwhelmed now #i do sometimes miss the days when someone would just have to leave a message on your answering machine if you weren't home #and you'd listen to it when you got back #and we didn't have a constant bombardment of news #if you wanted to see it you had to buy a newspaper or turn on the TV

[brandinotbroke]

some tech youtuber refered to my phone as a "small format phone" meanwhile I can BARELY use it with one hand because it's almost too big

#controversial take maybe but my frist thought was “smartphones are being made for men” #I'm not even a small woman #like... I am exactly average height for women #my hands are not weirdly small or anything #at least i don't think so #the screen is 6.2" #like I always struggle with buying new phones because these fuckers keep making them bigger and bigger #non sims

[robotpussy]

smartphones getting weaker each year, losing headphone jacks and now sd card slots like omg

#its a shame almost everything today requires you have a smartphone now because my one breaking should've been #the gateway to me finally getting a flip phone and actually doing one of my new years resolutions but then i remembered #my fucking job groupchat and the fact that i HAVE to have a phone with whatsapp :/

[the-nysh]

It seems Genos and Saitama still live together as always and that's all I care about, everything is fine again in the world

Genos is back without any major incident or intrigue after his last brief absence, and whether they've returned home or are chilling having lunch together at a local ramen place at the HA, the boys are back to their usual routine~

#opm #genos #saitama #saigenos #anonymous #replies #manga spoilers #same old same old when it comes to the boys being dumb :P #seen all those silly antics and faces before~ #if anything's changed then heh seems genos did get a new smartphone

[copper-dragon-in-disguise]

Why are you not supposed to show your face online?

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personal safety. i forget exactly what they said in the online safety classes they made you (me) take in elementary school, but its for the same reason you're not supposed to share your full name (or any name at all! make up a name and stick with it, or hey, its the internet, lie about your name and your age and say you're a math major from connecticut named matt, or something! i ain't gonna stop you! have fun with it!) and address and social security number. so people can't track you down and kidnap you or other horrible things.

In general its just like. don't share information someone could use to identify you online, because people are weird and some of them are shitty and if you say something and they don't like it, and if they can find you or identify you then thats not good!

#i legitimately forget why #(the specific reason at least) #but it is nonetheless VERY IMPORTANT TO NOT GIVE OUT YOUR PERSONAL INFO ONLINE /not sarcastic; serious #i think i'm from the weird limbo generation of when the internet was new enough that #i had online safety classes in elementary school #and also know what vhs tapes are #but still had a smartphone by age 12 #so i don't actually know if anyone younger than me had them #i loooooooove being from a weird limbo generation #its the BEST #/sarcasam #people think im old cause i know what a vhs is and i remember the orange ones and had cds and tapes as a kid #and people think im young cause i never had a fliphone and was born in the 2000s #okay rant over i am sorry /not sarcastic #purple ? anon #asks #anon asks #internet safety

[king-dra]

i do agree with the general idea that modern society could do without a lot of the frivolities and conveniences afforded to it by capitalism and imperialistic exploitation but also i will never understand the people who think we need to return to like, pre-industrial era living

#this may come as a shock but a lot of technological advancements have generally been pretty good for humanity #like do we /need/ 12 new variants of smartphone every 6 months? no #but that doesnt mean that we need to mulligan the concept of cellular communication! #random rambles

[whatislifebesidesrehearsal]

Actor: Has something ever gone missing and you can’t find it?

Lead Actor: Yeah, it’s called losing something.

#submission #oh also tags get excessive I've apparently been in a long winded mood and been having a Time Of It irl #they have absolutely no relation to anything going on in this post or this blog > #also ive been a bit spacy on queuing submissions bc my phone broke and it has been an Adventure getting it fixed #spent a week waiting for parts. broke a cable when replacing the screen. spent another week waiting for replacement cable. #finally got it back. immediately developed New problems. took it back in bc I could tell they were related to Old problems #tech said they could open it and double check things. did not open it. said bc it had passed the exit test it wasnt related #and id have to pay again. wrote an email to management. woke up to find New New problems. scheduled meeting with management. #woke up to find return of Old problem. went to meeting with management. opened phone. issue was Literally What I Said when I took it back in #solution took five minutes #theseus' smartphone has survived to another day #theater #theatre #behind the scenes #acting

[ariesbilly]

i simply will never understand these parents who hand their children smartphones and ipads if only for the fact that that shit cost money and children are reckless idc what kind of safeguards you got on. trust a child with a glass screen? bitch my family is poor no such shenanigans wouldve ever happeend

#if we had smartphones growing up the LAST thing anyone in my family would be doing is handing us one #ok well maybe id get to because i was a responsible careful child #but like my brother surely would not have been handed one because everyone would be like 'no youre gonna break it and we cant afford to fix #it/get a new one' like who are these people

[memenewsdotcom]

Apple worth $3 trillion

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#apple #business #computers #iPad #iPhone #meme #memes #money #news #phone #smartphone #stock market #stocks #tech #technology

[jamiehayterz]

Probably my favorite photos I took at Royal Quest III

#zack sabre jr #will ospreay #njpw #new japan pro wrestling #royal quest 3 #the quality sucks but this is what you get when you buy the cheapest smartphone in the store #my photo

[otaku-republic]

<Article> 【Gundam / Kimetsu / Dr.STONE】New Anime Coming in April! What will you Follow? Here are the Featured Lineups!

#Ranking of Kings #spring anime #anime 2023 #spring anime 2023 #oshi no ko #the dangers in my heart #dr.stone new world #swordsmith village arc #demonslayer #demon slayer #the witch from mercury #mobile suit gundam #hell's paradise #jigokuraku #tiger & bunny #the idolm@ster: cinderella girls #isekai wa smartphone to tomo ni #opus.colors #mashle magic and muscles #mashle anime #pokémon new anime