Study Finds Social Media, Screen Time by Teens and Tweens Increased in Pandemic

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🗓️ 28 March 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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During the pandemic, not only did children aged 8 to 18 spend more time on their screens, those under 13 who are technically barred by age limits from platforms, are increasingly gravitating to social media. The new study by Common Sense Media looked at what kids like to do on their screens – spoiler alert: watch videos – and reports that kids on average spend one and a half hours a day on social media but say they don’t really like it. We’ll talk about what this research means and how parents, teachers and caregivers can respond to these trends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:18.4	Back before the pandemic, a somewhat novel parenting problem had come to receive a shorthand name that was sure to fill many of us with dread, screen time.
1:23.2	And then the pandemic hit in screens became the route to just about everything, from school
1:27.2	to work to
1:27.8	doctor's appointments it will come as no surprise that a new common sense media survey found an
1:33.2	enormous jump in the time that teens and tweens spend with their devices but is this the new normal
1:39.1	the new water line or will parents be able to wean their kids and themselves off those screens now that most
1:45.7	pandemic restrictions have ended?
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1:59.9	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.
2:02.6	There's probably no stat that could surprise you about how much people use their phones, tablets, and computers.
2:09.1	But let's try.
2:10.6	According to Common Sense Media's new study, the average tween, that's 8 to 12 years years old spends how much time on screens for entertainment
2:19.6	use?
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