let’s talk about how they made it impossible to function without a phone and digitalised everything and then turned around and went “actually! these phone things aren’t safe for kids but it’s magically ok once you’re eighteen. guess you’ll have to have your life dictated by your parents now lol cause we’re gonna take the devices away from you. IT’S FOR YOUR OWN GOOD WHY ARE YOU COMPLAINING”
ok my apologies. take away my ability to buy anything too ig because these fuckass stores don’t accept cash anymore. take away my ability to communicate with people outside my house and school because I can’t text and I can’t email and I cant drive to them either and I can’t even fucking get public transport without a phone either. can’t order at a fucking restaurant without being asked to get a membership and install an app and also very sorry but you can only order through our online menu now! have you ever considered that it’s not just about instagram?
I don't know why this aspect of putting an age limit on phones never occurred to me, excepting that with my age I escaped it. Like I'm already very anti phone infrastructure, but... when I was a teen, it WAS just for fun. Fun and the occasional texts to parents that can be made with a dumb phone just as easily.
As the median age of this website increases, think about giving your children phones with no Internet access.
