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At long last, someone in leadership has stated out loud that Social Media is not fitting for youngsters under the age of 14.
The pandemic pushed many children onto social media and gaming sites as the only social outlet available to them. Many parents have expressed dismay over “losing their child,” because the addictive nature of screens has made it impossible to return to “ordinary life” without their children chained to their phones for social media and video games.
Consistent fighting over turning a device off, completing homework and household chores, coming to the dinner table, and sleeping, are part of the profile of symptoms that have intensified since the closing of schools and isolation during he pandemic.
Often connected to humiliation and bullying on Social Media, suicide rates in the young have increased. Read here about the decision of the Surgeon General. We might disagree with his decision about the age as still too young, there is at least some cautionary boundary being set about the darker side of using social media.
