2023-06-20 01:02:34
Published on 20.06.2023
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Our children have a smartphone and we struggle every day. In the dock: TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram. Excessive use is a variant of the problem. Use is another.
Michel Desmurget explains in La fabrique du cretin digital that our children have no particular predisposition to use social networks. A study has shown that a teenager uses 5% of the potential of TikTok. Thus, it only “swipes” from one video to another. He can’t compete with an engineer, but it’s more gratifying to think that his child is gifted. This is not the case.
I’m on my kids’ side and they think I’m against them. I control and limit their screen time, but I am not an overbearing father. The dangers on the networks exist: ephemeral deal points, harassment, gambling addiction… The limits of place, age and temporality disappear.
Here’s what makes me angry: the complacent school that sets up music work periods during which CO students can listen to their idols with their smartphones. An additional point of contact unnecessary with this tool. My children experience the limits that I set as an injustice because other parents, distraught, no longer control. I won’t give up!
I would like our authorities to strengthen prevention, promote the rediscovery of a millennial social network: human relationships. And if proof was needed to be convinced, in the heart of Silicon Valley, the Waldorf school has banned all forms of screens from its programs. Most of the students are children of Gafam executives…
Lionel Auzet, Courtaman
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