Will frequently looks at his smartphone for more than eight hours every day.
He used to enjoy riding his bike. Now that he is fifteen, he spends the most of his free time watching TikTok videos after college.
Will spent 31 hours on social media apps by himself last week. However, he will not be able to access social media for the following five days.
“How am I going to handle this?” he asks. “I have to socialize with my parents now.”
As part of an investigation into the usage of smartphones by youth, Will, one of ten students at Media City’s University Technical College, has committed to becoming phone-free in exchange for a simple Nokia phone.
The pupils’ lives will be impacted in almost every way because they have grown up with smartphones and rely on the internet for everything. They utilize Google Maps instead of A-Zs, are always streaming music on-the-go, and primarily interact via Snapchat or Facetime.
Colin Grand, the college principal, who is keeping the students’ gadgets hidden for the length of the trial, believes it will be a “real challenge.”
