My father was so addicted to his cell phone that the vegetable garden was deserted. (Picture / Retrieved from Weibo)
A woman surnamed Yang in Huainan, Anhui, China, bought a smartphone for her 87-year-old father and taught her how to use it. Unexpectedly, her father was addicted to it. As a result, the vegetable garden was not watered for a long time, causing her own melon field to be deserted. Decided to limit the time my father spends on his phone, and once the time is up, he can’t use it.
Yang Nv revealed to “Nine Schools News” that because she was not always around her father, she bought a smartphone for him and taught him for two days. I made a video call. Unexpectedly, my father learned to start swiping the phone to watch videos. As a result, he was as fascinated as he found a new world. He spent a long time on the phone every day.
Yang Nv said that the temperature has been relatively high recently, and the melon fields have been a little dry. My father did not water for nearly a week because he spent all his time on the mobile phone. I will still water the land, but I will not water it now.” It can be seen in the video that the melon field was neatly managed and green in the past, but now there are overgrown weeds, which is very different from the original appearance.
So Yang Nv secretly set her father’s video platform to “teen mode” to limit his usage time. “When the time is up, he won’t be able to use it anymore.” When her father asked her, she claimed that because the platform detected him as an old man, for the sake of the elderly Health activated protection mode, and the elderly believed it.
Yang Nv said that she was thinking of her father’s health, and it was not good for the cervical spine to sit on the mobile phone all the time, and she also delayed doing other things. After the news came to light, it sparked some discussions, “Dad doesn’t make people worry at any time”, “As the saying goes, it’s not an exaggeration to set up a youth mode”, but some netizens thought: “It’s too selfish, others still have Are you free! Why do you want the elderly to do what you don’t want to do?”, “Why can’t you play your mobile phone freely at the age of 87 and still be under control? Then you still live and work at the age of 87?”
