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Instead, perhaps ask, what are you watching on your phone?

What apps are you into?

This is what I do with my phone.

You could use their phone use as a conversation starter, as a way to meet them where they are,

as a way to perhaps enter their world rather than expecting them to jump straight into your world.

And, you know, it can just be the basis of strengthening connection rather than breaking it.

I'm Charlie Worsell, and this is Galaxy Brain.

About a year ago, around the holidays, I began to hear a similar complaint.

People were heading home, often with their kids in tow, to be with family.

It was there that they noticed that their parents or grandparents or older relatives were behaving differently.

Broadly, the complaint was that their older loved ones seemed consumed by their devices,

constantly on TikTok or Instagram or Facebook watching vertical real videos.

Sometimes, they said, they found it hard to hold a conversation.

In multiple instances, people reported that some of these adults seemed to not pay much attention to their grandchildren.

Most of the people that I spoke to recognized it pretty quickly.

It was the same thing they'd seen in their own kids. A screen time problem. So naturally, I was

curious. I wanted to get a sense of the scale of this. So I asked around on social media.

I got dozens of responses over the year from young people,

from older people, lots of people. Some older folks, they wrote in to tell me that they felt

bad about how much time they were beginning to spend on social media. Others told me they'd found

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