Posted on 10/06/2017 10:49:49 AM PDT by simpson96
Maybe it’s because I’m so damn entertaining and knowledgeable. Maybe it’s because I provide so much love and attention. Maybe I AM Supermum. Who knows?
Is there a magic mum formula, a secret to having two kids who DON’T do Facebook? Or Instagram? Or Twitter? Who aren’t self-obsessed selfie senders? Who aren’t vloggers ?
They used to do some of them. USED to, mind. It’s the latest teenage trend as far as social media’s concerned.(snip)
Apparently two-thirds of teens are sick of social media, with some going as far as to say they wouldn’t mind if it had never been invented.
Whoah! Steady on. How would I find out that I might have a life-threatening condition, or at least a urine infection, if I didn’t have online chats with pseudo-sick folk?
Or discover there are people out there who actually DON’T like me if Twitter was no more? Couldn’t care less about Facebook , mind you. If I want to share my news with people that matter I’ll text them. Or Skype. Or Facetime. Or maybe even phone them. That might be nice.
Better than the negative aspects – cyber bullying, radicalisation, sexting, trolling, anxiety etc – that often come hand-in-hand with addiction-level social media surfing.
I witnessed the effect sending a selfie via Instagram had on three students during an experiment for BBC1’s The Truth About Stress. As each student sent their pictures, stress levels crept up, then soared as responses came back.
Anxiety disorders are rising among young people, much of it linked to social media use. Fifty seven per cent of teenagers said they’d received abusive comments online, while 56% admitted to being “on the edge of addiction”.
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
Thank goodness there are places like FR for us Old People to hang out, LOL!
Let’s keep it boring, shall we? We don’t want any of those upstart whippersnapper teens over here! ;)
Except Conservative Teen. He can stay. If he can prove that he really IS a teenager. ;)
vloggers
I’m like those Hollywood actors that will play a teen well into their 30s.
LOL! Good for you! :)
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