• lazynooblet@lazysoci.al
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    8 months ago

    Who is buying the phones? The parents. So the parents buy their children a phone and then surprised Pikachu?

      • PutangInaMo@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Not just pressure to get a fancy phone but that most of the socializing happens on social media now. Even if they sit in the same class, it’s a snapchat message.

        If they don’t have access to it, they’re social outcasts by default.

        It’s fucking crazy…

      • IndiBrony@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        That’s still on the parents. My little lad is 15 and never had his own phone until his tweens. Amusingly, he was older than me when I got my first phone back in the 90s.

        He never got bullied for not having a phone.