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posted by takyon on Thursday July 06 2017, @01:54AM   Printer-friendly
from the correlation-vs-causation dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

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.

Source: https://thenextweb.com/insider/2017/07/03/uk-teens-are-among-the-most-extreme-internet-users-world-wide/


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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday July 06 2017, @05:26AM (2 children)

    by kaszz (4211) on Thursday July 06 2017, @05:26AM (#535575) Journal

    I'll expect most parents to be shit, just like Sturgeons law stipulates. But those that has brains could at least educate themselves and their children. It's less about knowledge and more about understanding. So an IQ test right there, unfortunately for many people. The rest will behave like idiots and be served the consequences.

    Evaluate schools and choose wisely?

    As you point out, there is no delete button. But that is the point. ASKING the question and the thinking process doing that gives insight about what to do and especially about what to not do. Having multiple identities should be required knowledge for any online smart like there's street smart.

    The large and sore point is that most likely the "other kids" have smartphones with camera and fa(r)cebook. So their peers will gossip all kinds of private matters electronically. But that is an excellent opportunity to learn operation security. Ie what to share or not share with IRL friends. Seed them with false leads. Make use of the dramabook using proxies to put some identifier distance into it, and only use it where there's something to gain like with ignorant peers planning something together like a class party etc. Leave all other (private) matters out.

    A common thread is likely that smart and (life smarts) educated people will have an advantage. Unfortunately people don't choose parents....

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  • (Score: 2) by Lagg on Thursday July 06 2017, @06:39AM (1 child)

    by Lagg (105) on Thursday July 06 2017, @06:39AM (#535598) Homepage Journal

    This is all true enough but there is a degree of reliance on some majority of reasonable parents and if it's a Sturgeon's law thing then that is definitely not the case. I don't know how likely that is. But I hope it's not 90%.

    I really want to agree with the perspective about street smarts and alike basic knowledge because I slept in gutters, cars and was around drugs and dealers for a good part of my childhood. I would say it made me smarter than a sheltered life did probably.

    I don't know, I feel like when I say that I'm basically saying it's cool if we have chimney sweeps running around that have to learn the hard way how not to get stuck in a fireplace even if happens to be their lil' tiny stupid souls that get hurt more rather than anything physical :/

    Maybe parents have a better capacity in the UK? idunno. Kind of have to compare everything from an american viewpoint.

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    • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday July 06 2017, @07:23AM

      by kaszz (4211) on Thursday July 06 2017, @07:23AM (#535610) Journal

      Most parents are reasonable when it comes to standard child caring. It's when they meet a non-intuitive online world that their thinking process will be seriously challenged and they must learn to navigate something more complex than a truthful (oh well) newspaper and town gossip. So 90% of parents could handle a upbringing without internet. With internet it drops more according to Sturgeons law.

      I think this issue is not so much about country as about able and will do due diligence on critical thinking. This skill seems even more important now that media lies and various organizations move in to take their exploitation of others.