Help kids to kick social media addiction - Article by TheTimes UK

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It’s ALARMING!

“God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains” - Sean Parker, the former president of Facebook. 

Melinda Gates's (Wife of Bill Gates) children don’t have smartphones and only use a computer in the kitchen.

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg wants his daughters to read Dr Seuss books and play outside rather than use Messenger Kids.

Steve Jobs’s children had strict limits on how much technology they used at home.

“Tech companies use the same tactics as the gambling” - Tristan Harris, 33, a former design ethicist at Google who studied behavioral psychology .

Read this interesting and  powerful article about the social media addictions published by The Times UK.

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