Jan
20
2010
@thegospel and Today's Youth
Ran into an alarming article in the NYT this morning -- ironically, on Twitter -- reporting on a new study about youth and digital media. Here's how it opens:
The average young American now spends practically every waking minute — except for the time in school — using a smart phone, computer, television or other electronic device, according to a new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Those ages 8 to 18 spend more than seven and a half hours a day with such devices, compared with less than six and a half hours five years ago, when the study was last conducted. And that does not count the hour and a half that youths spend texting, or the half-hour they talk on their cellphones.
And because so many of them are multitasking — say, surfing the Internet while listening to music — they pack on average nearly 11 hours of media content into that seven and a half hours.
This can't be good.
For more on this topic, listen to a recent Albert Mohler Radio Program: "Who's in Charge? Parenting in a Postmodern Age."