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Because it is proven that phone usage is not an addiction like drugs or alcohol. People put phones away easily if they have a reason to do so.

by achikin 10mo ago

rossjudson 10mo ago
I have no idea what you are talking about. It walks and quacks exactly like drugs and alcohol. Thousands of deaths every year are caused by drivers on cell phones. You'd think they'd have a reason to put them away.
- achikin 10mo ago
  There are a lot of reasons for distraction while driving, but we don’t call all of them addiction on that premise. If a driver was not looking at his phone - maybe he’d be looking at something else. The phone is not the reason - it’s just a very suitable object.
  - skeeter2020 10mo ago
    this is thoroughly debunked with hard data from distracted driving laws that focus on phone use while driving. We have the luxury of both before and after data and across different jurisidictions.
    - achikin 10mo ago
      I agree, but something being distraction does not automatically mean it’s addictive. Gear shifting is a distraction, but we don’t consider it addictive.
emil-lp 10mo ago
Citation needed
- achikin 10mo ago
  https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6174603/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6174603/ The main idea here is that overuse not equals addiction.
  - justinclift 10mo ago
    The first part of the Results section says: [...] the majority of research in the field declares that smartphones are addictive Though that section continues on to disagree with that majority, "the majority" declaring smartphones are addictive is certainly supportive of them being so.
mghackerlady 10mo ago
They aren't physically addictive like alcohol or opiates but it's very clear that many people have a psychological dependency on them. Whether or not a psychological dependency counts as an addiction is up to debate (personally, I believe they are due to my experiences with self harm, which many people including myself were or are psychologically dependant on) but the differences are mostly semantic if they end up functionally the same

Because it is proven that phone usage is not an addiction like drugs or alcohol. People put phones away easily if they have a reason to do so.

by achikin 10mo ago

Because it is proven that phone usage is not an addiction like drugs or alcohol. People put phones away easily if they have a reason to do so.

rossjudson 10mo ago

I have no idea what you are talking about. It walks and quacks exactly like drugs and alcohol. Thousands of deaths every year are caused by drivers on cell phones. You'd think they'd have a reason to put them away.

achikin 10mo ago
There are a lot of reasons for distraction while driving, but we don’t call all of them addiction on that premise. If a driver was not looking at his phone - maybe he’d be looking at something else. The phone is not the reason - it’s just a very suitable object.
- skeeter2020 10mo ago
  this is thoroughly debunked with hard data from distracted driving laws that focus on phone use while driving. We have the luxury of both before and after data and across different jurisidictions.
  - achikin 10mo ago
    I agree, but something being distraction does not automatically mean it’s addictive. Gear shifting is a distraction, but we don’t consider it addictive.

emil-lp 10mo ago

Citation needed

achikin 10mo ago
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6174603/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6174603/ The main idea here is that overuse not equals addiction.
- justinclift 10mo ago
  The first part of the Results section says: [...] the majority of research in the field declares that smartphones are addictive Though that section continues on to disagree with that majority, "the majority" declaring smartphones are addictive is certainly supportive of them being so.

mghackerlady 10mo ago

They aren't physically addictive like alcohol or opiates but it's very clear that many people have a psychological dependency on them. Whether or not a psychological dependency counts as an addiction is up to debate (personally, I believe they are due to my experiences with self harm, which many people including myself were or are psychologically dependant on) but the differences are mostly semantic if they end up functionally the same