TikTok there’s no clock, time to detox
Social media addiction that is plaguing teens et all Until a month ago, my teenage daughter, Sachika, lived with strict screen-time restrictions to regulate her social media and entertainment usage. However, ahead of her trip to Spain with friends, I lifted her social media curfew. Whether due to willful ignorance or a parenting lapse on my part, I forgot to reinstate those boundaries when she returned a few weeks ago. Last weekend, I checked her phone usage and was jarred to find an average of eight-plus hours a day of social media engagement, a staggering spike from her former maximum of 1.5 hours across all apps. Though she turns eighteen next year, is her developing brain truly equipped to disengage from these nefarious, hyper-addictive algorithms? She traps herself in endless loops of short clips and nonstop doomscrolling. [1] In the social media environment, constant screen scrolling from one short video to another gives the same dopamine effect as scrolling images on Vegas...