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PUBLIUS SPECIAL GUEST: Holly Swenson, author of Stop, Drop, Grow, & Glow: Forming Deeper and More Joyful Connections with Yourself and Your Children.
Fourteen-year-old Armita Mojazza is a huge Harry Styles fan, and TikTok knows it.
Videos of Styles are "pretty much always" showing up as Armita scrolls through the platform, she said — "the feed obviously adjusts to your interests."
Those videos, combined with notifications from Snapchat and other social media outlets, lure Armita, of White Plains, New York, into up to five hours of screen time on weekdays and at least eight hours on weekends, she said.
Her mother, Shahrzad Mojazza, said she was shocked to learn how much time her daughter spends online. "I feel like I'm waking up to this news," she said.
A new report about kids and their smartphone use may offer other parents a warning: Children like Armita are inundated with hundreds of pings and prompts on their phones all day and all night — even when they should be paying attention in class or getting a good night's rest.
It's a "constant buzzing," said Jim Steyer, the founder and CEO of Common Sense Media, a group that studies the impact of media and technology on kids and families. "They literally wake up and before they go to the bathroom, they're on their phone."
New research Common Sense Media released Tuesday finds about half of 11- to 17-year-olds get at least 237 notifications on their phones every day. About 25% of them pop up during the school day, and 5% show up at night.
In some cases, they get nearly 5,000 notifications in 24 hours. The pop-ups are almost always linked to alerts from friends on social media.
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BIO: Holly Swenson, author of Stop, Drop, Grow, & Glow: Forming Deeper and More Joyful Connections with Yourself and Your Children, is an experienced Registered Nurse who is actively licensed in Montana. She received her degree from Montana State University and worked at St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, in the nueuroscience unit.
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