有些家长认为，应该限制孩子接触足够先进的技术。技术赋予力量，但它也意味着很多事情。你可能会失去你的隐私，你的数据，最终出现在互联网的错误部分，而只是暴露在你还没有准备好的东西面前。对青少年来说，这可能是一个相当有害的经历。尤其是考虑到Facebook在一个月前被抓到付钱让青少年监视他们。我不责怪父母想要和孩子建立联系，而是担心这种联系的代价。
U18，这是一款最基本的手机，你的孩子可能不会喜欢，但话又说回来，青少年往往不知道什么对他们有好处，对吧?它允许您拨打、应答和拒绝电话，添加和删除呼叫器，并呼叫您的爸爸、妈妈，或为父母/兄弟姐妹建立一个组呼叫。它甚至有一个微信按钮，可能仅限于阅读文本，还有一个语音命令按钮，让你告诉手机你想给谁打电话。把手机翻过来，它就会有一个视频通话摄像头(还有一个备用前置摄像头)，甚至还有一个紧急联系人报警按钮。
这款手机没有一个收集和销售你的信息的操作系统，也没有一个使用coo
kie的互联网浏览器，也没有谷歌、Facebook和亚马逊(Amazon)等应用程序来创建你的个人信息和偏好档案。它的功能就像一部电话，提供了一个对父母和孩子关系至关重要的功能——沟通的功能。
There are some parents who believe in limiting their child’s access to sufficiently advanced tech. Technology empowers, but it also means a lot of things. You can lose your privacy, your data, end up on wrong parts of the internet, and just be exposed to something you’re not ready for. For teenagers, that can be a pretty damaging experience. Especially co
nsidering Facebook was actually caught paying teenagers to spy on them just a mo
nth ago. I don’t blame parents for wanting to be co
nnected to their children but worrying a
bout the price of that connection.This is U18. It’s a bare-basics phone that your child will probably not like, but then again, teenagers often don’t know what’s good for them, right? It allows you to make, answer, and reject calls, add and remove callers, and call your dad, mom, or set up a group call for parents/siblings. It even has a WeChat button that’s probably limited to reading texts, and a voice-command button that lets you tell the phone who you want to call.Flip the phone over and it has a camera for video calls (there’s also a seco
ndary front facing camera), and even a panic button for sending SOS signals to your emergency contacts.The phone doesn’t have an OS that harvests and sells your information, or an internet browser that uses coo
kies, or apps like Google, Facebook, and Amazon that create dossiers on your perso
nal information and preferences. It does the job of a phone, and provides a feature that’s essential to the parent/child relationship… the feature of communication.Designer: c www.h (Konka)
