School’s Out, Screens On
While 13 million SA children were locked down, the HouseParty and TikTok apps ranked in the top ten most downloaded apps (according to SimilarWeb). Users spend, on average 2 hours and 15 minutes per day on these two apps alone. A 2019 “Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development” study in Canada found that children who kept screen time under 2 hours a day were “less impulsive”.
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