Many experts have deemed this negative input, this bad feeling when you don't immediately respond to the ding as FOMO or Fear of Missing Out. In short, someone somewhere said something and if I don't look at it right now I will have less information than everyone else I know. I will be the one left out. This is one reason that according to kids y phone experts, kids especially young girls, would rather allow cyber bullying to happen than tell to an adult and chance losing their smartphone.

As a parent, while your tween or teen having a smartphone can be very convenient for you, it can also be very dangerous. If your child isn't very careful, well educated and trained to its proper use, a smartphone can be a direct conduit to your child for any stalker or online predator.