My 4 year old son asked me just this morning at what age kids usually get phones. I was like, um, a lot older than you. Kids want to be like older kids a lot more than they want to be like authority figures (even though all the authority figures have phone addictions, too, so no difference, I guess), so it's natural for them to emulate. I'm terrified of that day when we relent and get them phones (early teenager? Tween? Don't know exactly).

Here in the US you'll hear many parents say their kids need phones in school because of the school shooter phenomenon. Could have a flip, I suppose.

Hubski is the only social media (are we social media?) I use, so I'm not immersed in that world. Although I see the allure and have been sucked into Twitter vortices at times in the past, I see the whole endeavor as a cancer on society, and I hope eventually we will treat TikTok, FB and the rest just like we did PhilipMorris and RJ Reynolds. You make a product that is a giant net negative to humanity while making billions and defending it against all evidence, then you should be sued out of existence. Period. I do not care one whit about how much wealth would be destroyed by that action. Took 40 years in the case of Big Tobacco. Social media is destroying the world a lot faster, so I'm guessing less time here.