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Crosscurrents

Get off your cell phone, dad!

Under CC license from Flickr user [Mark Nye]

Did you get a text? A new email? Maybe you’re emoji-ing your friends right now just for fun. Ninety percent of adults have a cell phone and almost 65 percent have smartphones. Nearly three quarters of teens have a smartphone or have access to one. Almost a quarter of them say they are online "almost constantly." Some teens, though, feel like they get in trouble for using their phones while parents get off scot-free. 

MAYA ESCOBAR: See you’re even holding your phone now. What are you looking at?

This piece was produced by Youth Radio in Oakland, CA. 

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