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More than one-third of 15-year-old children in the UK could be classified as 'extreme internet users', or those who are online for more than six hours daily outside of school.
A report from UK think-tank Education Policy Institute (EPI) states that children in the UK have a higher rate of extreme usage (37.8 percent of all UK 15 year olds) than other countries. Only Chile reported more.
The think-tank examined the relation between social media use (including online time) and mental illness:
While twelve percent of children who spend no time on social networking websites on a normal school day have symptoms of mental ill health, that figure rises to 27 percent for those who are on the sites for three or more hours a day.
Here's a hint: if one third of your kids think a certain way, it's a personality trait not a mental illness.
(Score: 1) by unauthorized on Thursday July 06 2017, @11:45AM
I'm not. All I'm saying is that it was also done in the name of "the greater good". The underlying implication is criticism of selling an idea because it's "for the greater good", which I assumed was obvious enough not to require spelling out, but apparently it was not.
Speaking of logic chasms, I fail to see how my decisions about my own life interfere with my rights. But even if I didn't take showers, how would that interfere with my rights? Nobody is going to force me to bathe, the worst people could do is avoid me and deny me entry to their property.