Every time one of his classmates gets a smartphone, Jhett Rogers thinks to himself: There goes another one.
“It kind of feels like I’ve lost a friend. Whenever I’m with them, they’re zoned out and always on their phone.”
But Rogers, a middle schooler in Salt Lake City, says he still can’t shake the desire to join the club. Six months ago, the only other holdout in his 30-strong group of friends got an iPhone.
“It kind of made me feel left out and jealous,” he says. “But later I don’t want one because I know what happens.”
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