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A 9 year old with a phone? That's quite a silly age to have any phone, let alone iPhone. What's the point too? Considering they'll always be around an adult at that age. Ah well. Guess I'm kinda peeved that I got a phone when I needed one at an age that I started spending days away from the house.
Lol.
I was sitting in the mall one day taking in a phone call.
Out of the corner of my eye, this guy and his little girl (I'm guessing 4) where sitting at a table. I believe he had an iPhone 1st gen, because I could see the shiny apple and aluminum on the back. His phone was sitting right on the table, until the little girl picked it up, stared at it, and threw it on the ground.
Ouch.
I was sitting in the mall one day taking in a phone call.
Out of the corner of my eye, this guy and his little girl (I'm guessing 4) where sitting at a table. I believe he had an iPhone 1st gen, because I could see the shiny apple and aluminum on the back. His phone was sitting right on the table, until the little girl picked it up, stared at it, and threw it on the ground.
Ouch.
Lol.
I was sitting in the mall one day taking in a phone call.
Out of the corner of my eye, this guy and his little girl (I'm guessing 4) where sitting at a table. I believe he had an iPhone 1st gen, because I could see the shiny apple and aluminum on the back. His phone was sitting right on the table, until the little girl picked it up, stared at it, and threw it on the ground.
Ouch.
Thats what you get when you send them to daycare/preschool with people who use PC.
I have a friend who was teaching an elementary school class first graders. They started in with show and tell and three first graders had iPhone's! What!?!? I knew some little kid would have an iPhone, but not three in a single class! Not that I really care, I'm just questioning the reasoning behind the parents paying for the data charges. Just plain weird.
My Daughter is 10 and has an iPhone 3G (she inherited mine when I moved to an E71 due to various deficiencies with the iPhone) - I was stuck on an 18 month contract with it so I thought "why not". She absolutely loves it and uses it mainly as an iPod and for downloading hundreds of free apps from the App Store.
You can only have 130 apps from the App Store because of the 9 page limit, so I'm guessing that:
That's the same way I got my iPhone though, My dad bought the original iPhone about 2 weeks after it came out. He hated it and moved on to a Nokia Communicator, special $900 order from Europe at the time. I was a 13 y/o with an iPhone. Now I am now 15 and waited in line 7 hours for the 3G on launch day. Is there something wrong with that? I also know Final Cut Studio, Logic Studio, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and learning After Effects. So my parents bought me an MBP. My dad had licenses to all the software so I got them from him. If the 7 y/o is a whiz on his iMac like editing, designing and composing then God bless him! If he's a whiz on Webkinz then that's good to I guess.
was an exaggeration.
That's the same way I got my iPhone though, My dad bought the original iPhone about 2 weeks after it came out. He hated it and moved on to a Nokia Communicator, special $900 order from Europe at the time. I was a 13 y/o with an iPhone. Now I am now 15 and waited in line 7 hours for the 3G on launch day. Is there something wrong with that? I also know Final Cut Studio, Logic Studio, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and learning After Effects. So my parents bought me an MBP. My dad had licenses to all the software so I got them from him. If the 7 y/o is a whiz on his iMac like editing, designing and composing then God bless him! If he's a whiz on Webkinz then that's good to I guess.
Well times have surely changed.
I took part in a 5th grade "delivering presentations using power point" after school activity.
These kids were pulling out top end Aliens, Mac Pros, Dell XPS and Hi end sony notebooks. They all come from average income familes. I was drooling over their computers.
To see kids with iPhones it seems to be not so much a phone, but, just like Apple has named their music players, a pod from the mothership (extension of their home computers and entertainment.
yea this is the first thing that came to mind when i read the thread.... why give anyone an excuse to attack your kid?
To the OP,
I understand what you mean. I know the phones are cool and everything, but is it really necessary for kids and young teens without jobs to have them? I'm a teenager, and might be getting a new iPhone hopefully sometime this week, and even though I think it's a really cool phone (main reason I want it), I wouldn't be surprised if my parents said no, or asked for good reasons why I need that particular phone.
My parents are the "do you really need it" kind of parents. And even though it pisses me off sometimes, I think it's a good characteristic into making me a young adult. At some point in my life I'm going to be on my own, and my "mommy and daddy" are not going to be buying me my iPhone... my computer.. all that kind of stuff, and I'm going to have to learn how to deal with it myself. So the way I see it is, all these kids with their iPhones, and Blackberries, is.. why? Why have we become such a spoiled generation and repeatedly ask our parents to buy us this and buy us that, and if they don't we whine like little babies.
So my point is, even though I'm a teenager with all these things that I really don't need, I have them because they're cool, which a absolutely stupid reason. Kids(including myself) these days seriously have to start learning what they need and don't need. And have to adapt to the fact that they can't just get everything they want.
Just my two cents...
I understand what you mean. I know the phones are cool and everything, but is it really necessary for kids and young teens without jobs to have them? I'm a teenager, and might be getting a new iPhone hopefully sometime this week, and even though I think it's a really cool phone (main reason I want it), I wouldn't be surprised if my parents said no, or asked for good reasons why I need that particular phone.
My parents are the "do you really need it" kind of parents. And even though it pisses me off sometimes, I think it's a good characteristic into making me a young adult. At some point in my life I'm going to be on my own, and my "mommy and daddy" are not going to be buying me my iPhone... my computer.. all that kind of stuff, and I'm going to have to learn how to deal with it myself. So the way I see it is, all these kids with their iPhones, and Blackberries, is.. why? Why have we become such a spoiled generation and repeatedly ask our parents to buy us this and buy us that, and if they don't we whine like little babies.
So my point is, even though I'm a teenager with all these things that I really don't need, I have them because they're cool, which a absolutely stupid reason. Kids(including myself) these days seriously have to start learning what they need and don't need. And have to adapt to the fact that they can't just get everything they want.
Just my two cents...
Wait a minute....is this...a logical response...from a teenager? Well, yes I think it is!
I do not see any reason at all for a kid to have a cell phone "as soon as he can walk and talk". I am so, so glad I did not grow up with all this crap because now I know how to survive without it. I didn't get my first cellphone until I was at least 25 (after the became mainstream). I believe 12 or so is about the age when a kid could need a cell phone, and a basic one at that!
Watching some kids these days completely unable to put the things away kills me (I'm talking to you, kid in front of me texting in a movie theater). It's seriously like they can not get by without contacting someone every 10 minutes.
I don't have much a problem with kids having computers, since I had one starting in 3rd grade. Of course, high tech then was "Lemonade" and "Oregon Trail"...no such thing as internet.
Even though this may seem contradictory to my previous post or signature, I agree.
Thankyou! I still do not understand why they need a phone with email (they likely don't have an address) and web (all my sister does [age 10] on the net is flash games). ARG!
Your 15, thats different. A lot changes between 10 years old and 15.
Yup!
I personally don't care who or what has phone's, david beckham's 5 yr old son has an iphone. However, I do think it is nesaccary for them to carry one at certain times (like at shopping malls), thats why in my house we always have the 'spare' phone with $10 credit on it
see,
from a safety point of view I must say that a 9 yr old carrying around a cellphone is excellent.
but im more trying to question why they would have a need for a phone that is so expensive/ doesnt really cater for their age group.
If they can pay the monthly data plan charge and they are at least 15 or 16 then fine, but giving a 9 year old a $500 ( actual price ) piece of equipment and pay $80 to $100 a month for them is ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS and seriously what do they possibly need the internet in there pocket for ? To add friends on my space? Update their facebook page? Go to a location with GPS in their car? Look up movie times for R rated movies ? Show their friends in 4th grade, YEAH 4TH GRADE!!!, so they can play catch with it?
Of course they have to email 20 clients about the upcoming class merger... WHO will be prepared? Unless... an iPhone... of course, it'll solve EVERYTHING!
I'm not going to try to convince anyone weather a 9 year old "should" or "shouldn't" have an iPhone, because I myself couldn't care less what they have - there are so many other factors involved that I don't feel I am justified judge what's "right' for another person (cost, responsibility of belongings, taking things for granted etc.).
All I will say is that it is most defiantly not a "waste" for a 9 year old to have "such an nice/advanced phone". I learned how to find information on the internet when I was 5 years old and put together my first powerpoint in grade 2 (first actual presentation in grade 3). By grade 5, I have had 2 of my friends build their own gaming PCs. Grade 6 my friend made games in (back then) Macromedia Flash and I made stuff using Final Cut Pro using school computers (I have stopped pursuing video since then and am into photography now), so I know that a 9 year old CAN "use" the iPhone "properly/to its potential". In fact, if I recall correctly, when the iPod touch first came out just over a year ago, one of the first Jailbreak application developer was a 13 year old (creator of "iJailbreak", i think).
Now I know not all kids are as into tech as my friend or I was, but again, I don't know the 9 year old you saw and don't know their experience or reasoning about why they want the iPhone so I'm not going judge weather that child is "justified" in having the iPhone - and I don't think anyone here should unless you know the child.
and I am not trying to defend myself for having an iPhone as a teen because I don't have one - I'm perfectly happy carrying my 17"MBP & its power cord pretty much every I need it (bed, school, friends places, my work room, photo shoots, couch, bus, planes and such) & I'll stick to my 5G iPod for music on the go
All I will say is that it is most defiantly not a "waste" for a 9 year old to have "such an nice/advanced phone". I learned how to find information on the internet when I was 5 years old and put together my first powerpoint in grade 2 (first actual presentation in grade 3). By grade 5, I have had 2 of my friends build their own gaming PCs. Grade 6 my friend made games in (back then) Macromedia Flash and I made stuff using Final Cut Pro using school computers (I have stopped pursuing video since then and am into photography now), so I know that a 9 year old CAN "use" the iPhone "properly/to its potential". In fact, if I recall correctly, when the iPod touch first came out just over a year ago, one of the first Jailbreak application developer was a 13 year old (creator of "iJailbreak", i think).
Now I know not all kids are as into tech as my friend or I was, but again, I don't know the 9 year old you saw and don't know their experience or reasoning about why they want the iPhone so I'm not going judge weather that child is "justified" in having the iPhone - and I don't think anyone here should unless you know the child.
and I am not trying to defend myself for having an iPhone as a teen because I don't have one - I'm perfectly happy carrying my 17"MBP & its power cord pretty much every I need it (bed, school, friends places, my work room, photo shoots, couch, bus, planes and such) & I'll stick to my 5G iPod for music on the go
I'm not going to try to convince anyone weather a 9 year old "should" or "shouldn't" have an iPhone, because I myself couldn't care less what they have - there are so many other factors involved that I don't feel I am justified judge what's "right' for another person (cost, responsibility of belongings, taking things for granted etc.).
All I will say is that it is most defiantly not a "waste" for a 9 year old to have "such an nice/advanced phone". I learned how to find information on the internet when I was 5 years old and put together my first powerpoint in grade 2 (first actual presentation in grade 3). By grade 5, I have had 2 of my friends build their own gaming PCs. Grade 6 my friend made games in (back then) Macromedia Flash and I made stuff using Final Cut Pro using school computers (I have stopped pursuing video since then and am into photography now), so I know that a 9 year old CAN "use" the iPhone "properly/to its potential". In fact, if I recall correctly, when the iPod touch first came out just over a year ago, one of the first Jailbreak application developer was a 13 year old (creator of "iJailbreak", i think).
Now I know not all kids are as into tech as my friend or I was, but again, I don't know the 9 year old you saw and don't know their experience or reasoning about why they want the iPhone so I'm not going judge weather that child is "justified" in having the iPhone - and I don't think anyone here should unless you know the child.
and I am not trying to defend myself for having an iPhone as a teen because I don't have one - I'm perfectly happy carrying my 17"MBP & its power cord pretty much every I need it (bed, school, friends places, my work room, photo shoots, couch, bus, planes and such) & I'll stick to my 5G iPod for music on the go
...and I grew up with a commodore 64 and an atari. What's the point?
You are seriously jealous of a 9-year-old...Wow...
So what. I know plenty of kids that age with iPhones. What's it to you?
I'm 14 and I have an iPhone and all that other stuff. I take care of it and enjoy using it. I would say I'm more mature than most kids my age.
So what. I know plenty of kids that age with iPhones. What's it to you?
I'm 14 and I have an iPhone and all that other stuff. I take care of it and enjoy using it. I would say I'm more mature than most kids my age.