• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    You can’t exist in this world without a phone anymore.
    Any meaningful school relationship builds on things like messaging groups.
    Just because we could do it in the early 2000s doesnt mean it’s applicable today.

    This would today socially cripple a student.

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      4 months ago

      I guess it lands differently in other parts of the world and is more nuanced than I previously anticipated, since, where I live we are quite agnostic between devices to message with, some use phones, some use tablets, some use laptops, and it goes on. As for my friend group, none of us communicated using phones until mid 2022, two years into our friendships.

      Since we all moved to our senior campus, we are just now emphasising smartphones as a daily method of communication, compared to our previous default, laptops and desktops, but we normally use the same apps/sites we used to, specifically discord and Instagram.

      Again, I believe it depends on the area, maybe in other parts they use phones much more often compared to us, or some may never use phones at all.

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        4 months ago

        Oh certainly!
        I would say my take would more or less apply to most of west Europe and north America and maybe some parts of heavily urbanized parts of Asia. But that is only guessing.
        My location is in Germany so take that information for what it is :)

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          4 months ago

          I definitely agree, though I’d also add the Australia/New Zealand region as well, since we are also reasonably heavy users of phones too. Also I’m from Victoria, Australia by the way, it’s pretty fascinating how diverse the internet is :)