Can't put down the phone? How smartphones are changing our brains — and lives.

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/surprising-ways-smartphones-affect-our-brains-our-lives-ncna947566 ^ | Dec. 14, 2018 | Lynne Peeples

[daniel1212]

As with any tech, they have their plus and minuses. As regards the latter, I suspect that as more people get their news and information from MSM headlines and do little to no research - and search engines are run by liberals and cater to those who only want to read a few lines, then the more souls are indoctrinated with liberal propaganda and its misleading or lying content.

Besides classically immoral content being made accessible to everyone from 6 years upwards.

I use a desktop, and even a laptop will bot suffice for what I want to do, but while I could use a smartphone, I am not looking to spend more time on it if I can get out and do something productive or beneficial, as the Lord enables.

[\/\/ayne]

Isaac Asimov wrote about this in "The Feeling of Power," a 1958 science fiction short story.

Nobody knows how to do simple math anymore because they all have hand-held calculators. A scientist reverse engineers the calculators and figures out how to do math in his head.

[TexasGator]

“I use a desktop, and even a laptop will bot suffice for what I want to do, but while I could use a smartphone, I am not looking to spend more time on it if I can get out and do something productive or beneficial, as the Lord enables.”

You have exceeded your daily ration of commas.

[daniel1212]

You have exceeded your daily ration of commas.

Forgot to launch the grammar check app:).

[varyouga]

I noticed a drastic a change at the office, on the road and personal relationships after smartphones became common. And not for the better

[LIConFem]

I don’t have any trouble putting down the phone. I hate phones, smart or otherwise.

It’s pistachios that I can’t put down. Damned things are worse than heroin.

[Truthoverpower]

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[BlackAdderess]

I have to admit that my cat has expressed the opinion that I must stop petting the smart phone and instead pay more attention to that cat!

[ConservativeInPA]

Initial data from a $300-million study by the National Institutes of Health,

Three Hundred Frickin' Million Dollar study. Put down that damn phone. That doesn't cost a dime.

[SpaceBar]

I must be in the minority but my phone spends most of the time in the bathroom on the charger unless I get a call or need to go out and have google maps handy.

[daniel1212]

I have to admit that my cat has expressed the opinion that I must stop petting the smart phone and instead pay more attention to that cat!

Funny!

[firebrand]

Maybe he used to write for the New Yorker.

[dainbramaged]

I hate phones, smart or otherwise. It’s pistachios that I can’t put down.
You sound like me - don't like phones, and pepperoni has me in it's grip.

[daniel1212]

Around her some kids cannot even play catch with a football without checking their phone every few minutes. And a few adults in the city walk out into traffic looking at their phone.

[firebrand]

Don’t worry. I just read that they provide a complete protein.

[Exit148]

Cats rule! Their time and THEIR way.

[Exit148]

How many times have we left home and then realized we forgot the iphone -—— and WENT BACK to get it!!??

[bigbob]

300 million bucks to tell us smartphones are making people dumber. Ressurect Bill Proxmire!

[firebrand]

A girl in Starbucks kept checking her phone in between the stages of making my drink. Glass, check phone, ice, check phone, coffee . . . etc. I said “Cellphone addiction.”

And she nodded!

It’s a disease!

[Cronos]

That’s why my kids get only 2 hours of screen time a week. And most of that is tv on Saturdays. That rule was broken during the online teaching during quarantine