Social media costs sleep for twenty percent of young people and the health consequences of that are reviewed in the article. (Science Daily: One in five young people lose sleep over social media)
1 in 5 young people regularly wake up in the night to send or check messages on social media, according to new research published today in the Journal of Youth Studies. This night-time activity is making teenagers three times more likely to feel constantly tired at school than their peers who do not log on at night, and could be affecting their happiness and wellbeing.
- SD
Continuing ...
"Our research shows that a small but significant number of children and young people say that they often go to school feeling tired -- and these are the same young people who also have the lowest levels of wellbeing. One in five young people questioned woke up every night and over one third wake-up at least once a week to check for messages. Use of social media appears to be invading the 'sanctuary' of the bedroom." Said author Professor Sally Power, Co-Director (Cardiff) Wales Institute for Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD).
- SD
Social networks don't appear to socialize them at all but rather they're educational destroyers. If kids are waking for anything in the night except to use the toilet, there's something seriously wrong.
Even without my own kids, I've voted for every school tax levy which ever came in front of me and it bites my ass to see self-serving pricks like Zuckerberg fucking up their education.
Note: my vocabulary is commensurate to whichever topic and Zuckerberg doesn't rate big words since social networks won't understand them anyway. Rectitude is a mystery in their world of fake news.
For most of the stuff on Ithaka, my writing is pissed off but I'm not whereas education flames me every time. How can any kid have a chance without a good education and the right one for that particular kid. Not every kid can handle driving trucks and not every kid can handle university, particularly when the latter aspect of education is so oversold it's bankrupting a generation.
Education as a profit center is a different topic and we'll leave that alone for now. Lotho is right that the change needs to start somewhere rather than futilely hoping for an instant perfect solution. There is tremendous money being spent in America on education but the simple fact is the country isn't good at it and much of it is wasted. For social media to further exacerbate that waste should be unconscionable.
1 in 5 young people regularly wake up in the night to send or check messages on social media, according to new research published today in the Journal of Youth Studies. This night-time activity is making teenagers three times more likely to feel constantly tired at school than their peers who do not log on at night, and could be affecting their happiness and wellbeing.
- SD
Continuing ...
"Our research shows that a small but significant number of children and young people say that they often go to school feeling tired -- and these are the same young people who also have the lowest levels of wellbeing. One in five young people questioned woke up every night and over one third wake-up at least once a week to check for messages. Use of social media appears to be invading the 'sanctuary' of the bedroom." Said author Professor Sally Power, Co-Director (Cardiff) Wales Institute for Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD).
- SD
Social networks don't appear to socialize them at all but rather they're educational destroyers. If kids are waking for anything in the night except to use the toilet, there's something seriously wrong.
Even without my own kids, I've voted for every school tax levy which ever came in front of me and it bites my ass to see self-serving pricks like Zuckerberg fucking up their education.
Note: my vocabulary is commensurate to whichever topic and Zuckerberg doesn't rate big words since social networks won't understand them anyway. Rectitude is a mystery in their world of fake news.
For most of the stuff on Ithaka, my writing is pissed off but I'm not whereas education flames me every time. How can any kid have a chance without a good education and the right one for that particular kid. Not every kid can handle driving trucks and not every kid can handle university, particularly when the latter aspect of education is so oversold it's bankrupting a generation.
Education as a profit center is a different topic and we'll leave that alone for now. Lotho is right that the change needs to start somewhere rather than futilely hoping for an instant perfect solution. There is tremendous money being spent in America on education but the simple fact is the country isn't good at it and much of it is wasted. For social media to further exacerbate that waste should be unconscionable.
No comments:
Post a Comment