{"id":18869,"date":"2025-05-20T07:37:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T05:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/almost-half-of-young-people-would-prefer-a-world-without-internet-uk-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T07:37:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T05:37:54","slug":"almost-half-of-young-people-would-prefer-a-world-without-internet-uk-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/almost-half-of-young-people-would-prefer-a-world-without-internet-uk-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Half of 16- to 21-year-olds support \u2018digital curfew\u2019 and nearly 70% feel worse after using social media<\/p>\n<p>Almost half of young people would rather live in a world where the internet does not exist, according to a new survey.<\/p>\n<p>The research reveals that nearly 70% of 16- to 21-year-olds feel worse about themselves after spending time on social media. Half (50%) would support a \u201cdigital curfew\u201d that would restrict their access to certain apps and sites past 10pm, while 46% said they would rather be young in a world without the internet altogether.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/may\/20\/almost-half-of-young-people-would-prefer-a-world-without-internet-uk-study-finds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f61ebfc0a740628d20c06b3f25370390a905cecb\/25_0_6880_5504\/master\/6880.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5e6fa5c2a3bb353f9488cd03e382632b\" title=\"Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds\" \/>Half of 16- to 21-year-olds support \u2018digital curfew\u2019 and nearly 70% feel worse after using social media<br \/>\nAlmost half of young people would rather live in a world where the internet does not exist, according to a new survey.<br \/>\nThe research reveals that nearly 70% of 16- to 21-year-olds feel worse about themselves after spending time on social media. Half (50%) would support a \u201cdigital curfew\u201d that would restrict their access to certain apps and sites past 10pm, while 46% said they would rather be young in a world without the internet altogether. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half of 16- to 21-year-olds support \u2018digital curfew\u2019 and nearly 70% feel worse after using social media Almost half of young people would rather live in a world where the internet does not exist, according to a new survey. The research reveals that nearly 70% of 16- to 21-year-olds feel worse about themselves after spending &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/almost-half-of-young-people-would-prefer-a-world-without-internet-uk-study-finds\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18869"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}