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Childhood disrupted: is the internet damaging young people’s development? (yorkshirebylines.co.uk)

submitted 9 months ago by Mrkawfee@feddit.uk to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 7 points 9 months ago

they get lazy about using/doing non device things.

That's the key. Over the generations media (from books to smartphones) got more sophisticated in grabbing our attention to the point that addiction really has become a problem. While everything fun can be somewhat addictive we now have corporations optimizing their products in that way.

I'm sure kids can develop healthy habits with phone and internet consumption but I also believe they need help by restricting exposure in order to play "conventionally". It's similar to sweets - if you leave kids to just eat whatever whenever they want, they'll stuff themselves with candy until they vomit repeatedly.