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[quote=Anonymous]'screens" covers a lot of different stuff, including

tv shows, binge watching 
computer games
surfing the internet 
social networks

they are not all equally harmful or addictive. a lot of successful people binge watch quality shows on Netflix. movies and shows are an art form - there nothing inherently better about reading novels than watching shows. children's shows and movies today are in general artistically superior to what we watched 30 years ago. don't overdo it, sure, but that holds for everything.

the one thing that I think is really evil are social networks. A lot of adults, even very successful adults, struggle with this... it's extremely addictive to the point of disrupting life and they also depression and foster conformity and groupthink.. from this I conclude that they can't be good for children either. a lot of mental health depends on a certain amount of self-deception. not a really big one, one needs to be realistic, but enough to maintain self-confidence. social networks quantify everything and make people really vulnerable.[/quote]

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