From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens adjusting to the smartphone ban

Sounds delightful. Now do it for adults.

- an adult phone addict

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Adults need to be adults and manage themselves, with or without help. Otherwise they're children.

What we really need is regulation of the tech companies driving the addiction. We've long since discovered that megacorps engineering addiction are more powerful than individuals ability to resist.

Adding to this, I never understood why it's considered so addictive. Smartphones are banal and frustrating to me. However, I'm often on my personal laptop.

I suspect there is something to the refrain that phones are a crutch in those cases where our range of actions is constrained. Through habit they then reflexively take over in other contexts.

This seems like reasobable mechanism, also matches what I saw of older generations developing parasocial relationships with soap operas, often started after being bedridden for some weeks.