Marl. Social networks: information flies among young people

All generations now have a cell phone in their pocket. Indispensable tool, smart phone it happened necessary in modern life. Calling, but also playing or receiving information, everything is possible with apps. And for the youngest, it doesn’t necessarily mean checking information, just that overview of titles.

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The survey shows that information is transmitted rapidly on screens, often without being monitored or verified, and careless readers will take this information as fact.

“The young man scrolls at full speed between successive screens,” warns Montmirail’s drug addict Alain Lagneau: “He sees pictures and clips and no longer reads. Everything is short clips or excerpts from shows. The young person who is looking for entertainment is mainly connected to TikTok . Information in itself does not interest him. He takes what he wants without analyzing it at full speed, but what is potentially dangerous, because bad information can be poisonous.”

Younger and younger on screens, young people are not well supported in understanding the images scrolling on the screen. He is no longer taught to decipher the information he receives and is fed false information.

Young people can’t read

Screen culture has led to the loss of an important element of the personal development of children, adolescents and young people – reading. “We can already begin to see the harmful effects,” explains the college professor. College students sometimes don’t know how to write in the traditional way, and the accumulated procrastination will never catch up later. Reading and writing are slowly disappearing from their daily lives. This will have dramatic consequences for two decades.”

The same teacher then warns: “Reading gave the child a set of all natural lessons. She teaches him to develop his imagination, for example, to build sets after reading a book. It also allowed him to project and think about himself in the story. If all we have are screens and they are constantly scrolling images, then we can no longer take the time to reflect and explore a topic. Therefore, we lose interest and the pleasure of analyzing information. ”

TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and Youtube are platforms that generate constant buzz with more than a million threads posted around the world every day.

Life by lawyer

Alain Lagneau points out that young people, who are still not satisfied with the lack of solid information, lead a proxy life with the lives of the stars spread on all social networks. They are not given the pleasure of working in a simpler life. They live a luxurious life and the young man is completely out of his life. Designer clothes, big cars and luxury living must be a dream now. ”

As we will see during the Covid crisis, while adults increasingly turned to serious media, young people did not do the same. He quickly took unverified posted information and made it his own.

The challenge now is to give these young people the ability to analyze, decipher, reason and, above all, get a clearer picture of the information being sent to them step by step. A problem that mainly applies to schools that have to apply themselves to parents who are resigned.

Alain Lagneau concludes: “There is no longer a critical spirit, and this can even become a threat to the ruling class. I am a supporter of mandatory information management subject in schools. This is the first step. ”

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