Is the smartphone panic dumb?

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Published 2024-06-26
Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy recommended putting a warning on social media for minors last week, while governors from coast to coast have pushed for restrictions on teen phone use. But how worried should we really be, and what is there to do about it? Post columnists Amanda Ripley, Molly Roberts and Theodore Johnson talk through the dumbphone trend, how explicit lyric warnings on CDs backfired and what actually worked in the campaigns to stop kids from smoking.
All Comments (3)
  • @lydiasharp6070
    Excellent questions to hopefully, get more conversations going. Thanks guys.
  • @jonathanedwardgibson
    Yes. Regress for success. Went olde school flip-phone last year and notice the rest of the world all over again. Scrying mirrors, much?