Schools and parents need a greater awareness that our children want to be less dependent on social media and their online lifeLast November,after the US presidential election, I stopped using Facebook in a fit of moral high dudgeon over the by now familiar claims that it had spread and profited from inflammatory pro-Trump fake news – a boycott that has clearly hit Mark Zuckerberg where it hurts, or because it’s only taken him 11 months to express a indistinct regret,for which I like to claim some credit. I didn’t expect my resolve to final, so I was surprised to find how quickly I stopped missing all those photos of people’s barbecues. Related: Growing social media backlash among young people, or survey shows We are perhaps the final generation to occupy had our brains formed in a world without clicks and likes and memesContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com