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Title    What Should Apple and Other Manufacturers Do About Gadget Addiction Among Youth?
Date    Saturday January 13 2018, @02:37AM
Author    Fnord666
Topic   
from the sent-from-my-iphone dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/01/12/1542238

canopic jug writes:

Teenagers are averaging over 4.5 hours per day dorking around on their smartphones, not including time spent texting or talking. So over at Techdirt Glyn Moody writes about the question specifically asked to Apple about what to do about gadget addiction among youth.

In an open letter to Apple, two of its major shareholders, Jana Partners and the California State Teachers' Retirement System, have raised concerns about research that suggests young people are becoming "addicted" to high-tech devices like the iPhone and iPad, and the software that runs on them. It asks the company to take a number of measures to tackle the problem, such as carrying out more research in the area, and providing more tools and education for parents to help them deal with the issue. The letter quotes studies by Professor Jean M. Twenge, a psychologist at San Diego State University, who is also working with the shareholders in an effort to persuade Apple to do more


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