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Smartphone Nation: Building Digital Boundaries When Offline Isn't an Option
For readers of The Anxious Generation who want to know what to do next, this transformative guide to setting boundaries and establishing healthier habits around tech will help us all live better—both online and off.
“Smartphone Nation equips us with the practical tools needed to build a healthier, happier future for ourselves and our kids.”—Daisy Greenwell, co-founder of Smartphone-Free Childhood
Dr. Kaitlyn Regehr—a celebrated researcher and professor of digital humanities—explains how we can hold on to the myriad benefits of technology while evading their hidden dangers. We are all using (and parenting around) a technology we didn’t grow up with; it makes sense that we feel overwhelmed. In Smartphone Nation, Regehr explains how these technologies work, giving you the power to change the way you (and your family) use your devices. Regehr proposes a new, food pyramid–like framework for understanding and improving our digital consumption. Some tech, like nutrient-dense food, is good for us; it is vital in our lives. But so much of what we consume via algorithms is like candy that rots our teeth: it’s disastrous for our wellbeing. Regehr’s groundbreaking research reveals how we can reclaim control and maintain a healthy digital diet.
Essential reading anyone who knows there’s more to life than staring at a screen—or who wants to raise children who believe that, too—Smartphone Nation shows how to:
Navigate the attention economy, which prioritizes engagement at all costsImprove your digital nutrition for better mental healthSpring clean your viewing experienceGame the algorithm Catch misinformationParent your children in the digital age
Thoughtful, clearsighted, and empowering, Smartphone Nation is essential reading for anyone who owns a phone.
“Smartphone Nation equips us with the practical tools needed to build a healthier, happier future for ourselves and our kids.”—Daisy Greenwell, co-founder of Smartphone-Free Childhood
Dr. Kaitlyn Regehr—a celebrated researcher and professor of digital humanities—explains how we can hold on to the myriad benefits of technology while evading their hidden dangers. We are all using (and parenting around) a technology we didn’t grow up with; it makes sense that we feel overwhelmed. In Smartphone Nation, Regehr explains how these technologies work, giving you the power to change the way you (and your family) use your devices. Regehr proposes a new, food pyramid–like framework for understanding and improving our digital consumption. Some tech, like nutrient-dense food, is good for us; it is vital in our lives. But so much of what we consume via algorithms is like candy that rots our teeth: it’s disastrous for our wellbeing. Regehr’s groundbreaking research reveals how we can reclaim control and maintain a healthy digital diet.
Essential reading anyone who knows there’s more to life than staring at a screen—or who wants to raise children who believe that, too—Smartphone Nation shows how to:
Navigate the attention economy, which prioritizes engagement at all costsImprove your digital nutrition for better mental healthSpring clean your viewing experienceGame the algorithm Catch misinformationParent your children in the digital age
Thoughtful, clearsighted, and empowering, Smartphone Nation is essential reading for anyone who owns a phone.
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Published October 28, 2025
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September 5, 2025
I haven’t trotted out this line in a while but… the ones who need to read this, won’t.
Ms Regehr’s motivation for writing this book begins with a personal observation, and worry as a parent:
“And even before [her young daughter] has a smartphone, how will I deal with the impacts of the internet on the offline world she inhabits? Because, of course, harm doesn’t stay on screens but rather bleeds out into schoolyards and onto streets.”
That is a crucial point. Everything interconnected and the ubiquity of (pretty much completely unregulated) social media means we might be able to protect our children, and ourselves, from the immediacy of what smartphones, etc. feed us, but we have no control over anyone else’s consumption. Ms. Regehr has concerns and she continues in her Introduction:
“Concern not just for my own children. Not just for all children. But for all of us—humans—as we sit in our information silos being served our daily dose of personalized content; one-sided arguments; things that close us down; things that limit us; or simply things that find the chink and pry into our most vulnerable selves, making us feel threatened or just a little lesser-than. This is the digital diet to which many of us—I would argue most of us—are now addicted.”
I cautiously agree with that. I see so much of the filter bubble and algorithmic steering in not only unknown to me posters/commenters, but also, unfortunately, in too many who are related to me.
So, she observes:
“To break those addictions, we must understand how these devices are built to lock us in and hook us, even if that might mean feeding us things that make us feel bad or make us sick or teach us mistruths.
Take, for example, January 6, 2021, when a mob of an estimated ten thousand people stormed Capitol Hill in Washington. They were not the under-sixteen-year-olds we talk about when restricting social media usage. The vast majority were adults. Consenting. Voting. Adults. The events in Washington were widely reported as having been instigated on and by social media—not just because of President Trump’s use of (then) Twitter, but also because of the way in which platforms allowed for the targeted circulation of material that whipped people into a state of rage—enough to want to topple their national structures. And yet this remains an almost unregulated space.”
Being aware of algorithms isn’t the only problem. There is a separate issue, addressed in other books, of why people seemingly blindly, almost cult-like, believe things without verifying them.
And as to the internet: “Regardless of whether it is primarily a tool or a toy, it, the internet, is largely unregulated relative to any of our other tools or toys.”
And, “For digital technology, instead of testing to prove something is safe prior to hitting the market, the tech industry has not been called into question until its products are deemed to be unsafe. And that is different from almost everything else that we buy or put into our bodies.”
It is really bad with AI (and getting worse).
So, Ms. Regehr examines the problems of device addiction and offers strategies to overcome it and manage the draw. Many probably sound intuitively obvious to the most casual observer, but unless they are talked about out loud, maybe not so obvious.
And there is precedent.
“We can learn from historical regulatory structures. Perhaps even ones built over a century ago. If we all decided we wanted such models in place, that we wanted more regulation and accountability, that we wanted greater control over how we spend our time and energy and more transparency about what shapes our opinions, so that we can determine what and how we think, we could shift the status quo. We have such a power. These structures were built by humans, and we humans—the users—can decide we need a change. We can. We should. We must.”
However, I add, like other major issues that need addressing/regulating,
1) the populace has to want it,
2) the legislators/regulators have to have the spine to do something about it,
3) the opponents have to cede ground,
4) the providers have to be willing to give up revenue.
Before I add some curated highlights and comments, I want to point out one thing I found profoundly disturbing: Sharenting. Apart from the real possibility of digital and perhaps in-person predation, posting life events (age markers for identifying birth dates), with landmarks/locations in the backgrounds (for narrowing home addresses), dates of photos/posts, names of children will make it pretty easy in 15+ years for someone of ill intent to put together enough information for identity theft as soon as the child turns 18.
Be careful out there. Manage your devices (as I write this on my iPad.)
I received an advance uncorrected proof of this from the author/publisher through NetGalley.
—————————————
[on social media] “You-loops, sharenting, truth decay, and the attention economy are all products of our digital age, but the overarching change that links all of these issues together is that social media has changed the way we think. That is, it changed the way we access information and process information. It’s changed our taste formation and the way we formulate our beliefs (political and otherwise). And that makes the impact of social media bigger than BlackBerry changing the way we worked, or even the iPhone changing the way we live. Because to change the way we think is to change us.”
{Important}
This is linked to one of the closing remarks from the coroner in Molly’s case. He said that one of the worst things about the content Molly consumed was that it discouraged discussion. And discussion is what we need. But how can we have conversations about such difficult issues?
[on “freedom of speech” arguments for no filters] “…, lawyer and Yale University lecturer Asha Rangappa suggests that Musk removing all content restrictions ‘would harm democratic debate, rather than help it.’ Because social media platforms are not a town square but rather an algorithmically driven construct where the value of an idea on social media isn’t a reflection of how good it is, but rather how valuable it is to the attention economy.”
{It was never about free speech. Unchecked bile gets more clicks, right?}
[on mind-numbing ignorance on the part of legislators] “In April of 2018, Mark Zuckerberg was questioned by the Senate Commerce and Judiciary committees on issues of privacy, data mining, Russian bots, dissemination of fake news, and Cambridge Analytica. But one of the most reported elements of the hearing was nothing to do with Mark Zuckerberg’s answers, but rather the questions—questions from lawmakers who didn’t know what to ask. Who did not have the capacity to have the conversation. That is, the questions asked by senators exposed a tremendous lack of knowledge and understanding.”
{Not just the politicians; there is appalling lack of knowledge, understanding and even more importantly, critical thinking in the general populace.}
Ms Regehr’s motivation for writing this book begins with a personal observation, and worry as a parent:
“And even before [her young daughter] has a smartphone, how will I deal with the impacts of the internet on the offline world she inhabits? Because, of course, harm doesn’t stay on screens but rather bleeds out into schoolyards and onto streets.”
That is a crucial point. Everything interconnected and the ubiquity of (pretty much completely unregulated) social media means we might be able to protect our children, and ourselves, from the immediacy of what smartphones, etc. feed us, but we have no control over anyone else’s consumption. Ms. Regehr has concerns and she continues in her Introduction:
“Concern not just for my own children. Not just for all children. But for all of us—humans—as we sit in our information silos being served our daily dose of personalized content; one-sided arguments; things that close us down; things that limit us; or simply things that find the chink and pry into our most vulnerable selves, making us feel threatened or just a little lesser-than. This is the digital diet to which many of us—I would argue most of us—are now addicted.”
I cautiously agree with that. I see so much of the filter bubble and algorithmic steering in not only unknown to me posters/commenters, but also, unfortunately, in too many who are related to me.
So, she observes:
“To break those addictions, we must understand how these devices are built to lock us in and hook us, even if that might mean feeding us things that make us feel bad or make us sick or teach us mistruths.
Take, for example, January 6, 2021, when a mob of an estimated ten thousand people stormed Capitol Hill in Washington. They were not the under-sixteen-year-olds we talk about when restricting social media usage. The vast majority were adults. Consenting. Voting. Adults. The events in Washington were widely reported as having been instigated on and by social media—not just because of President Trump’s use of (then) Twitter, but also because of the way in which platforms allowed for the targeted circulation of material that whipped people into a state of rage—enough to want to topple their national structures. And yet this remains an almost unregulated space.”
Being aware of algorithms isn’t the only problem. There is a separate issue, addressed in other books, of why people seemingly blindly, almost cult-like, believe things without verifying them.
And as to the internet: “Regardless of whether it is primarily a tool or a toy, it, the internet, is largely unregulated relative to any of our other tools or toys.”
And, “For digital technology, instead of testing to prove something is safe prior to hitting the market, the tech industry has not been called into question until its products are deemed to be unsafe. And that is different from almost everything else that we buy or put into our bodies.”
It is really bad with AI (and getting worse).
So, Ms. Regehr examines the problems of device addiction and offers strategies to overcome it and manage the draw. Many probably sound intuitively obvious to the most casual observer, but unless they are talked about out loud, maybe not so obvious.
And there is precedent.
“We can learn from historical regulatory structures. Perhaps even ones built over a century ago. If we all decided we wanted such models in place, that we wanted more regulation and accountability, that we wanted greater control over how we spend our time and energy and more transparency about what shapes our opinions, so that we can determine what and how we think, we could shift the status quo. We have such a power. These structures were built by humans, and we humans—the users—can decide we need a change. We can. We should. We must.”
However, I add, like other major issues that need addressing/regulating,
1) the populace has to want it,
2) the legislators/regulators have to have the spine to do something about it,
3) the opponents have to cede ground,
4) the providers have to be willing to give up revenue.
Before I add some curated highlights and comments, I want to point out one thing I found profoundly disturbing: Sharenting. Apart from the real possibility of digital and perhaps in-person predation, posting life events (age markers for identifying birth dates), with landmarks/locations in the backgrounds (for narrowing home addresses), dates of photos/posts, names of children will make it pretty easy in 15+ years for someone of ill intent to put together enough information for identity theft as soon as the child turns 18.
Be careful out there. Manage your devices (as I write this on my iPad.)
I received an advance uncorrected proof of this from the author/publisher through NetGalley.
—————————————
[on social media] “You-loops, sharenting, truth decay, and the attention economy are all products of our digital age, but the overarching change that links all of these issues together is that social media has changed the way we think. That is, it changed the way we access information and process information. It’s changed our taste formation and the way we formulate our beliefs (political and otherwise). And that makes the impact of social media bigger than BlackBerry changing the way we worked, or even the iPhone changing the way we live. Because to change the way we think is to change us.”
{Important}
This is linked to one of the closing remarks from the coroner in Molly’s case. He said that one of the worst things about the content Molly consumed was that it discouraged discussion. And discussion is what we need. But how can we have conversations about such difficult issues?
[on “freedom of speech” arguments for no filters] “…, lawyer and Yale University lecturer Asha Rangappa suggests that Musk removing all content restrictions ‘would harm democratic debate, rather than help it.’ Because social media platforms are not a town square but rather an algorithmically driven construct where the value of an idea on social media isn’t a reflection of how good it is, but rather how valuable it is to the attention economy.”
{It was never about free speech. Unchecked bile gets more clicks, right?}
[on mind-numbing ignorance on the part of legislators] “In April of 2018, Mark Zuckerberg was questioned by the Senate Commerce and Judiciary committees on issues of privacy, data mining, Russian bots, dissemination of fake news, and Cambridge Analytica. But one of the most reported elements of the hearing was nothing to do with Mark Zuckerberg’s answers, but rather the questions—questions from lawmakers who didn’t know what to ask. Who did not have the capacity to have the conversation. That is, the questions asked by senators exposed a tremendous lack of knowledge and understanding.”
{Not just the politicians; there is appalling lack of knowledge, understanding and even more importantly, critical thinking in the general populace.}
August 16, 2025
Smartphone Nation is full of statistics and facts on how to manage cellphones in your families lives. The challenge is not something that seems to be getting easier and Regehr reminds us of these dangers throughout each chapter. As a mom myself I devour the information in books on the topic of cellphones, not just for new information but also to remind me of the reasons to be aware of what everyone is consuming in the digital world. Most certainly worth a pick up.
Thank you to the publisher for the advanced reader copy via Net Galley in exchange for my honest review.
Thank you to the publisher for the advanced reader copy via Net Galley in exchange for my honest review.
August 12, 2025
This book offers searing insight into how to regulate our digital consumption, particularly for parents who want their children to have happier, healthier relationships with social media and technology in a world where remaining offline is neither practical nor feasible. Regehr, a researcher and professor of digital literacy, presents a food pyramid-like analogy as a way to understand, refine, and enhance our digital boundaries. She provides readers with practical steps they can take to outsmart algorithms, navigate the attention economy, weed out misinformation, and tailor their viewing experience for better mental health.
This is a concise and cohesive read that offers a lot of good advice about establishing effective digital boundaries. It also spotlights serious questions about internet/privacy regulation from a legislative standpoint. I found the point about child stars/actors having more legal protections than kids with parent-run accounts on TikTok to be quite eye-opening. Regehr raises many valid points that cause readers to question, consider, and reevaluate. Worth picking up!
Thanks to NetGalley and Random House for the ARC in exchange for my review.
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This is a concise and cohesive read that offers a lot of good advice about establishing effective digital boundaries. It also spotlights serious questions about internet/privacy regulation from a legislative standpoint. I found the point about child stars/actors having more legal protections than kids with parent-run accounts on TikTok to be quite eye-opening. Regehr raises many valid points that cause readers to question, consider, and reevaluate. Worth picking up!
Thanks to NetGalley and Random House for the ARC in exchange for my review.
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December 16, 2025
DNF- I read most of this, it felt preachy and almost exclusively targeted to parents, which is fine but so was the Anxious Generation and at least it was interesting.
October 28, 2025
After having recently read The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt, Smartphone Nation offers practical steps to create digital boundaries not only with your kids, but for yourself. After seeing my state issue a mandate that no phones can be in public schools, I can see that this book comes at a time when it’s most needed as we are working through that. I liked the chapter on Digital Nutrition. It helped us realize that not everything you do with your device is created equal. It also informs us that we can make a choice and be engaged in what we would like and how to go about taking away the things that aren’t serving you. This is one chapter that I will be working on and helping my family work on too.
Thank you to Kaitlyn Regehr, NetGalley and The Dial Press for the advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Publication Date: October 28, 2025
Thank you to Kaitlyn Regehr, NetGalley and The Dial Press for the advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Publication Date: October 28, 2025
October 28, 2025
You’ve probably had that experience of talking about a topic or object and then having it pop up on your search engine or social media feed. This is the search engine or social media algorithm at work, and it often predicts what you want even before you know you want it. Convenient, creepy, or simply annoying?
You may also have heard about or witnessed the risky and negative impact social media can have on pre-teens and adolescents. Heartbreaking, scary, potentially life-threatening.
And yet, online use is here to stay and for many of us, our livelihoods depend on it.
Dr. Kaitlyn Regehr has written a timely and critical book. Anyone who accesses the internet or has children will find Smartphone Nation both eye opening and necessary. Dr. Regehr writes about the intersection of the attention economy, digital literacy, free speech, and the algorithm. She explains the inner workings of the algorithm and the attention economy, exposing the underbelly of big tech, which anyone who spends time online needs to understand to protect their own mental health and that of young people around them. She emphasizes the need for digital literacy for our children and our lawmakers. She looks at causes and consequences and points out the lack of regulations, despite the health risks.
After the first chapter, I considered disconnecting completely and dedicating my time to reading and gardening, but when the message reaches its darkest point, Dr. Regehr shines a light on solutions for making the online experience safer. She suggests adopting a diet of digital nutrition. She provides concrete actions we can take for ourselves and to help those around us who may be at risk. Most of all, Dr. Regehr drives home the point that we can decide we want change and influence the policy shifts we want to see.
The notes at the end of the book are exhaustive; Dr. Regehr shows her academic side, demonstrating the research that informs every page and giving the reader plenty of options to dive deeper into the topics covered.
Thank you to The Dial Press, an imprint of Random House for providing this book for review via NetGalley. All opinions are my own.
You may also have heard about or witnessed the risky and negative impact social media can have on pre-teens and adolescents. Heartbreaking, scary, potentially life-threatening.
And yet, online use is here to stay and for many of us, our livelihoods depend on it.
Dr. Kaitlyn Regehr has written a timely and critical book. Anyone who accesses the internet or has children will find Smartphone Nation both eye opening and necessary. Dr. Regehr writes about the intersection of the attention economy, digital literacy, free speech, and the algorithm. She explains the inner workings of the algorithm and the attention economy, exposing the underbelly of big tech, which anyone who spends time online needs to understand to protect their own mental health and that of young people around them. She emphasizes the need for digital literacy for our children and our lawmakers. She looks at causes and consequences and points out the lack of regulations, despite the health risks.
After the first chapter, I considered disconnecting completely and dedicating my time to reading and gardening, but when the message reaches its darkest point, Dr. Regehr shines a light on solutions for making the online experience safer. She suggests adopting a diet of digital nutrition. She provides concrete actions we can take for ourselves and to help those around us who may be at risk. Most of all, Dr. Regehr drives home the point that we can decide we want change and influence the policy shifts we want to see.
The notes at the end of the book are exhaustive; Dr. Regehr shows her academic side, demonstrating the research that informs every page and giving the reader plenty of options to dive deeper into the topics covered.
Thank you to The Dial Press, an imprint of Random House for providing this book for review via NetGalley. All opinions are my own.
October 30, 2025
Smartphone Nation
By Kaitlyn Regehr, PhD
This book is subtitled "Building Digital Boundaries When Offline Isn't an Option". And that is most everywhere and all the time today!
The author goes back to the very beginning: with the creation of personal computers and the birth of the internet. She explains that there is a difference between things that are regulated for our safety such as cigarettes, food, medicine, even cars and the internet/AI. The first things mentioned are regulated based on past experience and first-hand knowledge on the part of the regulators.
Unfortunately the digital world (the internet and AI) has grown up by leaps and bounds since the early 1990s, far ahead of any regulator's previous experience or first-hand knowledge. Therefore attempts at regulation for safety concerns – especially for our children – are falling farther and farther behind.
The author presents many ideas of how we can try to protect ourselves and our loved ones from the pervasive "bad places" which can easily draw in adults as well as children. Being cognizant of how these sites manipulate us based on information that we sometimes unwittingly provide may help to red flag the places we shouldn't be going.
But for me, the scariest statement in this book is that we are not the consumers in the digital marketplace; the advertisers are. We are simply the product! This book should be a must read for all of us forced into the digital world today – but most especially for those with children.
Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for this ARC.
By Kaitlyn Regehr, PhD
This book is subtitled "Building Digital Boundaries When Offline Isn't an Option". And that is most everywhere and all the time today!
The author goes back to the very beginning: with the creation of personal computers and the birth of the internet. She explains that there is a difference between things that are regulated for our safety such as cigarettes, food, medicine, even cars and the internet/AI. The first things mentioned are regulated based on past experience and first-hand knowledge on the part of the regulators.
Unfortunately the digital world (the internet and AI) has grown up by leaps and bounds since the early 1990s, far ahead of any regulator's previous experience or first-hand knowledge. Therefore attempts at regulation for safety concerns – especially for our children – are falling farther and farther behind.
The author presents many ideas of how we can try to protect ourselves and our loved ones from the pervasive "bad places" which can easily draw in adults as well as children. Being cognizant of how these sites manipulate us based on information that we sometimes unwittingly provide may help to red flag the places we shouldn't be going.
But for me, the scariest statement in this book is that we are not the consumers in the digital marketplace; the advertisers are. We are simply the product! This book should be a must read for all of us forced into the digital world today – but most especially for those with children.
Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for this ARC.
October 1, 2025
I'd like to thank Netgalley, the publishers and the author for an ARC of this book. In exchange, I am providing an honest review.
Having recently read "The Anxious Generation" and being a teacher in a school in NY, I was looking for something that provided clearer solutions and guidance to parents. If you weren't aware, NY schools recently banned cell phones. I didn't know of any clear guidelines or advice for parents should they ask for it, and this book has a lot of suggestions that work. Some of these suggestions I feel are also applicable to adults without children who are trying to curb their own cell phone habits.
It was really interesting to read the information provided about how companies target us through cell phones, and the connections it all has to recent political events.
Overall, I would say this is a relevant, engaging read. It's also pretty quick, so I would say it was worth it.
Having recently read "The Anxious Generation" and being a teacher in a school in NY, I was looking for something that provided clearer solutions and guidance to parents. If you weren't aware, NY schools recently banned cell phones. I didn't know of any clear guidelines or advice for parents should they ask for it, and this book has a lot of suggestions that work. Some of these suggestions I feel are also applicable to adults without children who are trying to curb their own cell phone habits.
It was really interesting to read the information provided about how companies target us through cell phones, and the connections it all has to recent political events.
Overall, I would say this is a relevant, engaging read. It's also pretty quick, so I would say it was worth it.
October 2, 2025
A look at how to set boundaries for yourself and your kids around smart phones and social media. This book gives tips on how to make informed choices in the attention economy where you are the product. The author acknowledges that technology is a part of our society and can be very useful, but that there is a lot of negative content, and what keeps our eyeballs on social media is not good for us, and includes a lot of microdosing of harmful content which is more effective on keeping your attention. Being aware of the algorithm, gaming it, and knowing the difference between negative and positive screen time can be better for your digital health. This book was a quick read and was full of useful examples as well as advice on how to navigate screen time and social media. I received a free digital ARC of this book from the publisher.
December 6, 2025
Although I don't have children, I do teach, and have for nearly 30 years now, so I've seen firsthand the way portable technology has changed the behavior and the interaction of the generations which have come after mine. I'm also somewhat obsessed with the topic of tech and how it affects us as a society. As a result, a lot of the observations and warnings in this book seemed pretty pedestrian and "Smartphones 101" to me.
That being said, if you are a parent, and you aren't already somewhat knowledgeable/well-read about this topic, many of the suggestions the author makes for revising and limiting your own tech use and monitoring that of your kids might prove quite novel and practical.
Either way, it's a pacy (albeit dark), readable book, always an accomplishment for nonfiction like this
That being said, if you are a parent, and you aren't already somewhat knowledgeable/well-read about this topic, many of the suggestions the author makes for revising and limiting your own tech use and monitoring that of your kids might prove quite novel and practical.
Either way, it's a pacy (albeit dark), readable book, always an accomplishment for nonfiction like this
October 25, 2025
Very interesting book. It examines how algorithms and AI can influence our thoughts, feelings and opinions. It shows how not all screen time is created equal. For example a child watching a CBEEBIES program on TV is not the same as a child chopping and changing through quick U TUBE videos where they can unintentionally be exposed to inappropriate content. The book encourages us to examine our digital use and see how we can do better. Setting limits, avoid clicking on click bate algorithms that we didn't search for and think carefully before you share something online. Highly recommend this one.
October 30, 2025
An excellent book for people looking to create healthy digital boundaries or diets for themselves, their children or their whole family. This was extremely helpful as a millennial mom who is already thinking about how the digital world will be when my son starts asking for a phone and/or social media.
I don’t think we talk about how unregulated the internet is enough and I appreciate people making sure this information is out in the world.
Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.
I don’t think we talk about how unregulated the internet is enough and I appreciate people making sure this information is out in the world.
Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.
October 13, 2025
This book should be on everybody's reading list. Unless governments sit up and realize what is going on, and enact strict regulations about its use and what should be allowed on each platform, democratic society will suffer. The algorithms they use may be really dangerous.
December 28, 2025
Read for my ludditification. Lots of data presented showing phones are bad. (Duh). Geared towards parents trying to safeguard their children. A few helpful concrete tips. Wrote this on my iPhone 13 Mini. Brb checking instagram.
October 15, 2025
This book is mostly aimed at parents but I thoroughly enjoyed it despite not having kids. It was such an interesting read and I’d highly recommend it to anyone!☺️
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November 5, 2025Somewhat of a liberal pov in some examples she gives, but overall really good educational content & important for us personally as well as for parents for their kids.
November 26, 2025
I really did not get anything from reading this book.
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November 20, 2025I received a copy from the publisher today - Will Lyman from Penguin Random House.
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