#high density housing with unreliable public transport and you need an app for everything

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Me to my little sister: Right now you've got a replacement phone you'll actually keep this one on you when you go out alone right?

Her: Yes!

Her: Unless i go to the shop

Me: What? That's the only place you go without an adult, why wouldn't you take it there? It's the one place you actually need it

Her: Why would i need a phone in a supermarket

Me: Why would you need a phone anywhere? To get help if you need it. Besides you aren't teleporting in to the supermarket! You have to get there first. You're taking it to the supermarket so you have it there and on the way there in case you need to call us because there are no public phones! If you go out without it, you are the only person walking about without one.

Her: OK, I'll even take it to the supermarket

#honestly these people who are all like 'kids are too dependent on phones parents shouldn't encourage it are mad #and the same ppl are weird about kids not walking places. like you get one #you can't complain about both. not when the world is now only set up for people with individual phones #yeah I'm going to send her out there alone as the only person out there without a phone and limited life experience to deal with emergency #no man. no phone boxes no police stations and have you tried to borrow a strangers phone recently? People are weird about it #high density housing with unreliable public transport and you need an app for everything #nobody can give directions any more and its not like theres anyone who'd recognise her and bring her home if she'd need it #decades of systematic dismantling of working class communuties has just left a constant cycle of new neighbours if you aren't the one movin #everything is out of town with schools in one direction and jobs in another. like hell would i leave anyone in the middle of that with no #way to contact anyone they know when they are still learning how to function on their own #people are ridiculous. if you aren't personally helping out lost kids on your own initiative and you don't know who your neighbours are #and you haven't told them where you go in the day then i don't want to hear about how the world is worse now we have phones #like create the world you want to see! if you don't like that people don't know their neighbours #get to know your neighbours. if you are mad the world is less friendly. stop voting for policies that make community impossible because #its more profitable. like god. phones aren't the problem it's our global societies obsession with money above all else #people having phones on them is not the problem. it's a solution to all the other ones we've been left with. 'young people are always on #are always on their phones and don't know how to talk to people' like wow way to show you don't talk to anyone under 40 #honestly I don't know anyone younger than my parents who think it's OK to have the ringer on and be playing videos outloud and I'm not on #my phone in any situation where i wouldn't be reading a book without it. I'm sure I'm not the only one who's been freed up from carrying #reading material everywhere. it's not hurting anyone just being in her bag and besides who cares if it is. kids need to be prepared for #living in the world that's actually waiting for them. not some idealised image of the past.