I would be tempted to take away their cell phone.

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<p>If I thought my kid was doing this.
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<p>Just get them a cell phone like this one:
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<p>Luckily I don’t have to worry about my kids, but a retro phone is a good idea.</p>

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<p>Not every kid.</p>

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<p>Generally regardless of access to phones, things like this will still happen/I don’t really think taking phones away would curb a lot of this</p>

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<p>I feel like the media takes what a couple of people in NY/LA are doing and blow it up like everyone is doing it.</p>

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<p>It makes me very, very glad that my kid goes to a diverse (economically, socially, racially) diverse public school. That’s where she makes her friends (and meets boys, lots of boys!).</p>

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<p>^ oh man boys! Prob should lock her up now!!</p>

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<p>ucbalumnus, My child had that kind of flip phone in COLLEGE and I think he did not have his phone before sophomore or junior year of high school.</p>

<p>Every one of my family was upgraded from dumb phones to smart phones last Christmas and DS was already two years after college.</p>

<p>We must be mean parents. Dial-up internet connections for most of his pre-college years (so those online games were not possible), very late in getting smart phones, no computer in his own room while he was growing up, and (this one was the most extreme) no cable TV and therefore the TV in the living room was almost never turned on. Renting movies was only for rare occasions like when there was no school.</p>

<p>Back in his high school, a girl was calling him on our landline in our kitchen. He had to talk to her while every family member was there. After that call, there was no more such calls. No wonder he was one who could not get a girlfriend. It is all parent’s fault!</p>

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<p>This is it.</p>

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<p>We didn’t add data until D was in her last term of college and S had been working at his FT job for 1.5 years. In college, the text plan cost by the text and we only went to unlimited texts 1 year or so prior to adding data. Both kids had free unlimited wifi all over campus for netbook and/or computers. While they were in HA, computers were in living room only, where anyone could walk by and look over your shoulder. </p>

<p>We never had any of these issues. Scary read, even if its only being done with few kids–sad life for them and they sound awfully mixed up with very different values than in my life.</p>

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<p>I’m sure a few of these existed back when you were a teen yourself. It wasn’t created out so social media.</p>

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<p>The cyber bullying wasn’t around when I was a kid. I think it was a different world in some respects. Youthful mistakes had a tendency to have fewer lasting effects than those in the article, I think.</p>

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<p>hello vals</p>

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<p>I couldn’t help but chuckle at some of the things the teens said. It amazing how led astray they are. Simply astonishing.</p>

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<p>Most kids have a real life and use technology at the very same time. The kids in the article are sad but they would have been sad without cell phones or the internet.</p>

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<p>Take a look at the cover of that issue.</p>

<p>They are part of the problem.</p>

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<p>Now look what you’ve all done. You’ve rewarded the authors of a stupid and exaggerated article by linking to it. Sensationalist articles like this one are all about gathering clicks, because in this day and age, publishers can track which articles are actually read and by how many people. So the writer scares up some clueless person who says something clueless and kinda sexy, and there you go… more clicks.</p>

<p>Do any of you actually know kids that do this? As in, you could call them up and say “don’t do this!” I certainly don’t–and neither do my own kids. </p>

<p>Just think “yellow journalism” when you see garbage like this, and don’t reward it.</p>