As someone who part of the 1st/2nd wave of people given smartphones in middle school (I’m now 23) I wish didn’t have one so young, and that the normal social thing was to wait. I think it really created an attention suck and focus on something that isn’t real. Deleted most social media off my phone in college and felt much better, since I didn’t have this background strain of checking, liking, or just watching. I was more free to think than consume.

Obviously I’m just a single person, but feel that its import to share that while the guardians piece may be poorly written, the sentiment may hold water for a good portion of the population