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We see smartphones everywhere. In school hallways, at the family dinner table and plugged in at the bedside table.
But how young is too young to be constantly connected to the rest of the world through sleek apps, social media and video messaging?
One Colorado man has decided that age 13 seems like a good cutoff.
Tim Farnum is leading the charge on a proposed ballot initiative in Colorado that would be the first of its kind in the country. Farnum's proposal would ban the sale of smartphones to children younger than 13, or more likely, to parents who intend to give the smartphone to kids in that age bracket.
Farnum, a Denver-area anesthesiologist, is the founder of Parents Against Underage Smartphones, or PAUS, the nonprofit group pushing the proposal.
Source: Coloradoan.com
Also reported by: The Washington Post
Initial Fiscal Impact Statement: Colorado.gov [PDF]
(Score: 2) by KGIII on Tuesday June 20 2017, @03:15PM
I was going to write a long pseudo-logical rebuttal about how they were right, and we never should have let those mop tops in. I just don't have the energy to go full-on joke troll, today. I think society is doing okay, actually. Still, I wanted to quote some little known Charlie Daniels, which was the whole goal of the post I was going to write.
Imma quote it anyhow.
"There were fellas dancing and fellas kissing,
There's a fella over there wearing high heeled shoes and pantyhose."
It is his sequel to Uneasy Rider.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."