Les dangers des réseaux sociaux pour nos enfants : lutter contre l’utilisation excessive et excessive

Our children have a smartphone and we struggle every day. On trial: TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram. Excessive use is one variant of the problem. Use itself is another.

Michel Desmurget explains in La fabrique du crétin digital that our children do not have a particular predisposition to use social media. A study showed that a teenager only uses 5% of TikTok’s potential. Thus, they only “swipe” from one video to another. They cannot compete with an engineer, but it is more rewarding to think that their child is gifted. That is not the case.

I am on my children’s side and they think I am against them. I control and limit their screen time, but I am not an authoritarian father. There are dangers on social media: temporary drug deals, harassment, gaming addiction… The limits of place, age, and time disappear.

Here is what makes me angry: the complacent school that allows working sessions with music, during which CO students can listen to their idols with their smartphones. An unnecessary additional contact point with this tool. My children experience the limits I set as an injustice because other parents, helpless, no longer have control. I will not give up!

I would like our authorities to strengthen prevention, promote the rediscovery of a millennial social network: human relationships. And if proof was needed to convince oneself, in the heart of Silicon Valley, the Waldorf school has banned all forms of screens from its programs. Most of the students are children of Gafam executives…

Lionel Auzet, Courtaman