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Comment Re:Are you serious? (Score 1) 682

My mother felt the same way about a computer when I was in my teens. "All you'll do with it is play games" she said. Then some Zuckerberg guy invents this Facebook thing and makes a fortune with it. Why? Because he had a computer as a kid.

Correlation is not causation, horse before cart, etc.

Your mother was 99.9999% likely to be right. Zuckerberg made a fortune because he saw that computerized gossip would be a success. That's a social thing, not a computer-programmer thing.

Comment Re:4 years (Score 4, Insightful) 682

News Flash: Life happens. Even when you plan on having children, one cannot even remotely plan for every event forthcoming (especially four years later) that would elicit the need for a 4-year old to have a cell phone.

News flash:

Some separated parents don't have as much access to the kid(s) as they would like.

If the mother's anything like the description she's probably already filled the kid's head with lies about misogynist-daddy and a phone won't fix anything.

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