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| ▲ | giarc 3 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Grab any teenager from the street and ask to see their screen time usage on the phone. I bet when you subtract sleeping and school hours (assuming their school has banned phones in classrooms) it will still be nearly double digit hours. |
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| ▲ | garrickvanburen 3 days ago | parent [-] | | So? There was a time when all the phone-based activities were separate objects and devices. But today, conveniently they’re all in a single device. Aggregate screen time is a useless measure and discrete screen time only matters to help diagnose when something has done wrong. If the kid is wildly successful what doors screen time matter? | | |
| ▲ | giarc 3 days ago | parent [-] | | That's looking at it with rose coloured glasses. And please don't come back with "maybe they are watching educational content on tik tok" because we all know that's not true. >22% of US teenagers spend 2-3 hours a day on TikTok [1] 1. https://explodingtopics.com/blog/time-spent-on-tiktok | | |
| ▲ | garrickvanburen 3 days ago | parent [-] | | How much time is appropriate?
Who decides?
What _should_ they doing instead?
Who decides?
Where does the kids agency during their discretionary time end? |
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| ▲ | wvenable 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > Kids prefer being IRL with other kids w/ or w/o screens. Who are these kids you speak of? |
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| ▲ | theoreticalmal 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Last sentence is just…so inaccurate |
