[jck]

Seems to me that the only difference between what you're proposing and just self regulating your social media intake is FOMO.

[echelon]

No, the point is that I'd want this for _everybody_.

I want my friends off their phones too.

[nickthegreek]

And you want it for me too. I don’t even know you. No thanks, I’ll live my life how I see fit.

My state finally lets me buy alcohol on Sundays. I don’t need the government limiting my freedoms. I’m not their kid, they aren’t my parents.

[echelon]

> And you want it for me too. I don’t even know you. No thanks, I’ll live my life how I see fit.

Oh, don't you worry. I totally agree with you. Freedom is perhaps the most important thing in the world. I don't want people making choices for myself or others. Complete freedom - of thoughts, of speech, of actions. (But consequences for those that abuse it - murder, etc.)

That said, I still really miss the world before all of this happened. Our world has never been the same since smartphones arrived.

We'll never be able to go back to the way things were before. That world is dead forever, and nobody -- not me, not you -- will ever be able to bring it back. Doesn't stop me from wishing it would all go away occasionally. At the same time, I'd never be willing to give up what we have now.

It's a complicated feeling.