{"id":7253,"date":"2022-10-04T07:37:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T05:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/04\/children-need-to-be-protected-from-toxic-social-media-platforms-letters\/"},"modified":"2022-10-04T07:37:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T05:37:51","slug":"children-need-to-be-protected-from-toxic-social-media-platforms-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/04\/children-need-to-be-protected-from-toxic-social-media-platforms-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Children need to be protected from toxic social media platforms | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Readers reflect on Molly Russell\u2019s inquest verdict and hope that it will be a turning point for technology firms<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the Molly Russell inquest, my 19-year-old daughter has grown up on social media, suffered with intense anxiety and depression, self-harmed for all of her secondary school years and attempted suicide more than once (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/sep\/30\/molly-russell-inquest-verdict-silicon-valley-harm-children-government\" title=\"\">The Molly Russell inquest verdict damns Silicon Valley. There can be no more excuses, 30 September<\/a>). When visiting family over the summer, her aunt, who has two children under 10, asked her opinion on when children should be given a smartphone. Without a second\u2019s hesitation her reply was: \u201cDon\u2019t ever give them a phone. Social media has ruined my life and almost killed me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to Molly\u2019s brave family. The documentary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesocialdilemma.com\/\" title=\"\">The Social Dilemma<\/a> should be mandatory viewing for all children in primary school.<br \/><strong>Name and address supplied<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2022\/oct\/03\/children-need-to-be-protected-from-toxic-social-media-platforms\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ca11a24976a6096cf130d3a7a6715b7597ed0536\/167_0_3333_2001\/master\/3333.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=dcc05e931e37a6cf0ebdd079301bfe37\" title=\"Children need to be protected from toxic social media platforms | Letters\" \/>Readers reflect on Molly Russell\u2019s inquest verdict and hope that it will be a turning point for technology firms<br \/>\nRegarding the Molly Russell inquest, my 19-year-old daughter has grown up on social media, suffered with intense anxiety and depression, self-harmed for all of her secondary school years and attempted suicide more than once (The Molly Russell inquest verdict damns Silicon Valley. There can be no more excuses, 30 September). When visiting family over the summer, her aunt, who has two children under 10, asked her opinion on when children should be given a smartphone. Without a second\u2019s hesitation her reply was: \u201cDon\u2019t ever give them a phone. Social media has ruined my life and almost killed me.\u201d<br \/>\nThank you to Molly\u2019s brave family. The documentary The Social Dilemma should be mandatory viewing for all children in primary school.Name and address supplied Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers reflect on Molly Russell\u2019s inquest verdict and hope that it will be a turning point for technology firms Regarding the Molly Russell inquest, my 19-year-old daughter has grown up on social media, suffered with intense anxiety and depression, self-harmed for all of her secondary school years and attempted suicide more than once (The Molly &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/04\/children-need-to-be-protected-from-toxic-social-media-platforms-letters\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Children need to be protected from toxic social media platforms | Letters<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7254,"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\/7253"}],"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=7253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}