Yes, there should be regulations

For infants, toddlers and preschool children, the WHO now recommends the following:

• Infants (less than 1 year) should spend NO time watching screens (infographic by WHO: https://www.facebook.com/WHO/photos/a.167668209945237/2332003450178358/ )
• Children 1-2 years of age: For 1-year-olds, sedentary screen time (such as watching TV or videos, playing computer games) is not recommended. For those aged 2 years, sedentary screen time should be no more than 1 hour; less is better (see https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/24-04-2019-to-grow-up-healthy-children-need-to-sit-less-and-play-more )
• Children 3-4 years of age should NOT have sedentary screen time more than 1 hour; less is better (infographic by WHO: https://www.facebook.com/WHO/photos/a.167668209945237/2334957993216237/ )

The WHO guidelines for children under 5 years of age can be freely downloaded in full at https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/311664

Some related research:

• https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2722666
• https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/143/4/e20182012
• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-28254-8

Yes, there should be regulations

Yes, you are right sir.

Yes! It should be managed and regulated especially for children under 5

If children or adolescents use smartphones for learning, as a tool to support education process, communication with schoolchildren and friends, it should be allowed and encouraged, however, it has to be restricted/controlled for viewing advertisements on social media and also worthless memes and films and other similar usage due to its adverse/negative effects on the intellectual and psychological development of children and adolescents, especially for children aged below 5.

Sure, this is important for health

In the context of the above considerations, I also propose the following research problem:

Should parents control the use of social media by children and young people?

Should parents control the use of social media by children and young people? Without this control, can the influence of social media portals be destructive to the development of children and youth? Can some types of YouTube pages and thematic channels be considered as a complement to the didactic and educational process in schools?

Yes, social media portals can be destructive for the development of children and young people if too much time is spent by children and youth on browsing sidelines media portals, and especially if the pages are not developing capacity, intellectual skills are only advertisements for different products and services.

Social media portals can be a complement to teaching and educational instruments if they are under the control of parents, guardians and teachers. If children and youth use social media portals for a specific, limited, not too long time a day and if they browse websites that contain information that supplements knowledge acquired at school then social media portals can be a complement to the educational process and can be evaluated positively .

But unfortunately, such websites and thematic subpages on social media portals are rather scarce, the majority of information is not useful for education, entertainment and advertising of products and services. Many of the thematic websites that can supplement the knowledge acquired by students in schools are outside of social media portals.

An especially unique type of social media portal is the YouTube video portal, which contains various films, different thematically and different in terms of content. Some films may supplement the school's educational process for children and adolescents. However, there are many videos that do not contain relevant content and / or advertisements for specific products and services.

The problem is that for the purposes of viral marketing, such types of videos for the YouTube portal are created that children and young people think that they are watching a presentation recorded by one of the users of the portal and in fact they are watching an advertisement aimed at redirecting to a specific online store. It is important to control what children and teenagers watch on social media sites by parents, guardians and teachers.

Do you agree with me on the above matter?

In the context of the above issues, I am asking you the following question:

Should parents control the use of social media by children and young people? Without this control, can the influence of social media portals be destructive to the development of children and youth? Can some types of YouTube pages and thematic channels be considered as a complement to the didactic and educational process in schools?

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It should be limited for young children. My son had 1 hour a day available on internet until the age of 12. And parents should control children activities online.

good discussion!

Just don't become a slave of smartphones. One should use smartphones as per the requirement. if used wisely it can help you to achieve your goals and if used idiotically, it has power to destroy you.

This topic is really important for families nowadays. I agree with the respondents. I don't know how possible it is to keep children away from smartphones.

I believe education and information is helpful here, for parents, children, teachers and more.

In my opinion, the problem of addiction of young people to smartphones is growing in many countries. A very negative effect is the rapidly growing number of road accidents caused by the fact that while driving a car, motorbike, bicycle, drivers of vehicles use smartphones and more and more pedestrians fall into cars when they enter the road while browsing messages on smartphones.

Therefore, in some countries, more restrictive legal regulations are introduced, including, in particular, a ban on entering the road while looking at the smartphone. In addition, special lighting systems are installed in the sidewalks to inform about changing lights when crossing pedestrians on roadways. The educational role of parents and teachers in schools is also of key importance in this regard in taking into account the impact of multi-hour use by children of smartphones for children's development.

i need some ethical research paper on these topics of excessive mobile effects and its link with obesity and antisocial behaviour? plzz share if someone has information....

"Limitations always secure rationality in human behaviour"