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Teens on being tethered to their phones and social media

Clip: 6/2/2016 | 2m 37s

We asked a handful of eighth-graders to give their takes on what technology means to them.

Teenagers today have never known a world without smartphones and social media, and most of them can’t even conceive of a time where people sat around the dinner table without checking their Instagram pages. We asked a handful of eighth-graders from a Los Angeles public school to give their Brief But Spectacular takes on what technology means to them.

06/02/2016 | Rating NR

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