For anyone like me that was wondering how average screen time on phones compares to average "screen time" watching television in the late 90's: - 2000: "Almost

For anyone like me that was wondering how average screen time on phones compares to average "screen time" watching television in the late 90's: - 2000: "Almost all 6-17 year olds (99%) watch television in their leisure time, and on average spend *two and half hours almost every day* in front of the screen." - 2023: "On average, children ages 8-12 in the United States spend 4-6 hours a day watching or using screens, and *teens spend up to 9 hours.*" I think this screen time increase, and, specifically, the lack of regulation around social media consumption is a crisis. Data on the harms that social media is directly and indirectly accountable for is abundant. The increase in children getting a tablet thrown in front of them is particularly concerning to me. This might be me (a Millennial) channeling Socrates[^2] about the next generation, but I am increasingly strongly believing that insufficient life skills development and the achievement gap in general will be significantly wider in the coming years because of this, and that wage/class inequalities will increase with it. [^0]: https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/21172/1/Young_people_New_media.pdf https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/21172/1/Young_people_New_media.pdf [^1]: https://www.aacap.org/AACAP/Families_and_Youth/Facts_for_Families/FFF-Guide/Children-And-Watching-TV-054.aspx https://www.aacap.org/AACAP/Families_and_Youth/Facts_for_Fam... [^2]: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/a4vnuv/old_generations_complain_about_the_next_one_since/ https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/a4vnuv/old_g.... Yes, I know it's misattributed to Socrates and is a much more recent quote than oft-believed.