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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: 2) by DutchUncle on Thursday July 06 2017, @03:45AM (1 child)
Direct electrical stimulation of "pleasure centers" in the brain led rats to do nothing else. Larry Niven's Known Space stories included wireheading as the most addictive "drug" - and so cheap, too, a simple operation and then a low-power adapter was all you'd need. The Internet provides endless mental stimulation, whether outright porn or more intellectual curiosity; how many people are susceptible to the lure of the firehose of information? Probably most Soylentils . . . .
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday July 06 2017, @04:05AM
I read that too. Interesting!
Meaning that the closer the path between input and the pleasure center is. The more controlling that input can be.