Kids with Cell Phones, How Young is Too Young?

An anonymous reader writes "CNet is reporting that the average age of a child receiving their first cell phone is continuing to drop. A report carried out last year showed that the average age of a child's first cell phone was just eight years old and is expected to drop closer to 5 years of age this year. The author raises the obligatory medical questions that have been argued about in adults for years. Just how young is too young for a cell phone?

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[drinkypoo]

IMO I really hate the person(s) who invented cell phones. The world was doing just fine without them and they havent really helped us in any large way.

In your opinion you hate them? My opinion is that you just dislike them.

Cellphones have done a hell of a lot for us. They've also done a hell of a lot to us. However, I think ultimately they are a necessary step towards ubiquitous mesh-networked internet access, simply because they will cause demand for same.

The simple fact is that you can't stop technology and always-on, global communications is a dream of everyone who wants to be connected. Anyone who doesn't want to be connected should consider the possibility that their life in civilized society is both wasted and causing them emotional problems; they should sell all their posessions and move to bora-bora, live in a grass hut, and shut the fuck up. The rest of us are trying to move progress on, because when it comes to escaping from the results of technology, the only way out is through. We either develop enough technology rapidly enough to sustain our technological growth, or we have mass dieoffs and possibly the species goes extinct. There is no middle ground.