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How Teens and Parents Approach Screen Time: Most teens sometimes feel happy and peaceful when they don’t have their phone, but 44% say this makes them anxious. (www.pewresearch.org)

submitted 7 months ago by boem@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] bratosch@lemm.ee 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well , it doesn't explicitly specify in the article what they mean by "don't have their phone", but from context I understand it as "not using it", or having it put away but still within reach.

The article also seem very directed at social media. All the things you mentioned, except social media, are on a 'need' basis (transportation, bank access, etc) which really doesn't take an abundance of screen time.

[–] bassomitron@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Well there's also school, work, messaging friends/family to coordinate events or daily errands/child caretaking/etc or just simply keeping in touch/chatting, reading for news/pleasure, tracking emergency events like inclement weather or other disasters, etc. etc. So there's plenty of screen time still even when you subtract social media usage, at least for many older kids/young adults, and/or adults.