Kids Are Addicted to Social Media Because Parents Are Addicted to Control

February 12, 2014

culture / parenting / technology

But new data suggests that while the often heard complaint, ”Kids these days spend all their time online rather than face-to-face,” may be true, it’s not true for the reasons we think. No, today’s under-18 crowd is not made up of degenerates who don’t like human contact. Rather, they want face-to-face time as much as we did, it’s just that their parents won’t let them have it.