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Maybe the question isn't what your kids have but how you raise them. Just some food for thought before you bring some awfully sheltered individuals into the world.

In my opinion, not having a cell phone doesn't mean that you're necessarily sheltered. It just means that you don't--or didn't--have the same resources as everyone else around you. I know it sounds ridiculous to walk around without a smartphone in this day and age, but it is totally possible. Look at Fragger! He has the oldest phone ever, it even has buttons! Totally unheard of, but he's perfectly fine and functional. I teach about 120 high school students and I know for a fact that not all of them have cellphones. I'm a firm believer that nature and nurture play important parts in a child's development. The things around them are their exposure and it is up to the parents to teach them what is wrong and what is right or what to do in a situation that they see.

For example, a child sees a hooligan shoplifting and tells their parents. The parents can either tell their kid to mind their own business and not talk to them or let them know that stealing is bad and that whoever that person is, they will eventually get what they deserve. Same applies when teaching children how to distinguish fantasy from reality. I know shoplifting is a really weak example, but apply the same concept to this Slender man jazz going on. If those girls could not figure out that Slender man is just a work of imagination and superstitions because their parents never taught them that stabbing people is a bad idea in general. I know I was going somewhere with this argument but I forgot the destination...... I guess all in all, it is a parents job to teach their kids how to make good and socially acceptable judgement calls.

And remember, the internet is a dangerous place. You always have to take everything you read here with a grain of salt. And maybe a couple shots of alcohol.

This part would be credible ten years in the future. However, people carrying "dumb" phones is not at all outlandish these days. I carried an LG ~~Chocolate 2~~ Cosmos around until 2013. It had this magical, ancient technology called "buttons" on it. It's actually a very good idea for people that travel often to carry a second phone, typically a dumb phone, in case their primary network suddenly has no coverage. That something as archaic as a Razr can be purchased off the rack for $10 nowadays and still works just fine is telling of its usability among a field of iPhones and Galaxy S6's. That they are being sold in respectable numbers is telling of the exact opposite of your opinion that this sort of technology being used today is "unheard of".

If Fragger was carrying something truly out of mass market service like a rotary phone around, I'd be more willing to not laugh aloud reading the text you consciously typed.

EDIT: The Chocolate 2 was stolen. It was replaced a week later with a similarly shitty LG Cosmos, which I kept on hand for three years.