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am_Unition  ·  2694 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?

Dude, you shouldn't let Hubski's mob mentality influence your opinions.

It's not that I'm sure the author is wrong. But using a title like the one employed here screams, "I'm an out of touch alarmist here to chew out the young'n's and I'm going to use clickbait to do it!". Then, I get to:

    More often, [13 year old] Athena and her friends spend time together on their phones, unchaperoned.

    unchaperoned

Dawg, wut? I can't continue taking any remaining analysis seriously, credentials be damned, because this person clearly lives in a perpetual state of fear. If this was my mom... wait, this actually does sound like my mom, and that's probably why I smoked a LOT of pot when I went off to college.