Standard issue for all women.

Hello, Hannah here to say a hearty welcome to this week's Sunday chops,

which you may be listening to on your phone.

I'm not a person that spends that much time on my

phone and yet my life basically ground to a halt when it was stolen. So I jumped at the

chance to talk to Dr. Faye Bagetti,

neuroscientist and social media's phone doctor,

whose new book, The Phone Fix, looks at our relationship with our phones,

whether blue light effects are overrated and whether we should

all stop being young people nowadays about it. Facebook by the way is out on

February the 1st.

Until next time.

Fay, I wonder if I could start by asking you.

Why is it so many conversations about mobile phones are really really negative

particularly when we talk about young people and mobile phones? I mean I know enough teenagers

to know they are always on their phone. But there's a kind of

cynical way in which people talk about in which they assume that they're doing

something that's pointless. Whereas you know they could be buying their mom a

Christmas present, they could be reading something in the news, they could be

check and train timetables, they're all sorts of wholesome things. present. They could be reading something in the news. They could be checking

train timetables. There are all sorts of wholesome things, but we always seem to think

the worst. Why do you think we are so negative about phones? Thanks, Hannah. That is a

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