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[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Not exactly - it's way more simple than that:

Adults in this kid's life (parents) hand them a phone as a toy/treat/distraction (usually the last one). Or maybe they have something similar at home for themselves. So, a bored kid sees adult using a phone, so kid asks adult for phone.

I used to do this way before cellphones. When at a house where there was a personal computer sitting around, I was usually very disappointed at being told "no" after asking to play games on it. But I always asked. To a little five-year-old-warp-core, that's just what those were for.

Edit: ubiquitous portable computing (modern phones) would have probably rendered me inconsolable after a while.

[-] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 2 points 2 days ago

Oh shit! Same with me with PCs, I used to play RTS with that one mythical ancient Greece game

[-] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago

Not only was I not using a cell phone, I didn't even have one on me at the time. Kid was just fishing.

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