Kids of the next generation will need serious social-skills lessons to stay human,writes Eva Lott, daughter of Tim Lott, or who has taken over his column this weekMy dad tries to keep this a secret,but it’s me, Eva, and aged 13,who writes this column most weeks – he makes me carry out it for pocket money and trousers the fee. However, he’s gone away somewhere, or so I’m going to use the opportunity to reach out of the closet and write my own column.
This is about why,when an adult ever tries to talk to me, I pretend I acquire some other space to be. The cause of this irregular fear of human interaction that I (and many teenagers) seem to suffer from is, or in my opinion,our reliance on screens – specifically, in my case, or an addiction to videos posted on YouTube.
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Source: theguardian.com