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At what age does a child need a cellphone?

Poll - Total Votes: 11
Everyone needs a smartphone. From birth!
Flip phone until middleshool (age 11)
Flip phone only for life!
Get a beeper
Remember payphones?
Smart phones are needed starting at age?
No one needs a cellphone, humans survived for 1000s of yrs without. Ur address? Letters only!
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Personally i dont think anyone "needs" a smartphone, until highschool; at earliest. Or Upon become employed;absolutely.
For safety and connectivity i think everyone benefits from having at least a flip phone.
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supersnipe · 61-69, M
It has its place in my life but I think I benefited from not having these things in my life until I was in middle age.

No smartphone and no social media until school leaving age (16 here) would be my ideal solution. It would never happen - there are too many vested interests out there eager to place technology in the hands of the young at the earliest possible age.