Consider age based social media restrictions to check ‘digital addiction’: Economic Survey
“Policies on age-based access limits may be considered, as younger users are more vulnerable to compulsive use and harmful content,” the report said.
“Policies on age-based access limits may be considered, as younger users are more vulnerable to compulsive use and harmful content,” the report said.
A majority of parents in South Korea were found to rely heavily on smartphones or tablet computers when tending to young children while carrying out daily tasks at home, a poll showed on Saturday.
Where average times spent on a smartphone in a day was 4.5 hours in 2019, it has increased 39 per cent to seven hours in 2020. Certainly, a significant part of this increase in smartphone addiction is due to the urgency of connecting to the world around us during stay-at-home restrictions, and due to the revolution in the work-from-home culture including online teaching, etc.
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