It is unhealthy to spend several hours a day in front of the screen. Not only does it damage physical and mental health; it is addictive and can cause depression. Not only does it inhibit the acquisition of social skills that any person needs in his or her transactions with the world; it results in shorter attention spans, damaging the capacity for sustained and focused thought. Most fundamentally, it leaves us morally underdeveloped, addicted to a search for popularity that has little to do with character, virtue or anything else, and that is the worst possible training for resilience or
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Some resesrchis now showing that it's not the time spent but what is done and how that's important.
