Natascha Kampusch interviewed in The Guardian
British newspaper The Guardian has published a new interview with kidnap and abuse survivor Natascha Kampusch today. You can read this interview here.
– CBG
Do you find that writing helps? I have been writing online for a long time, and I find that it helps keep me creative, focused, and continuously learning. When I write about technology all of that holds true, and when I write about child abuse and mental health, it keeps me focused on my own…
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It’s not about child abuse but we have posted stories about the effects of blogging and social media communication in the past, and The Mail on Sunday printed another one again today regarding police in the UK, who have three arrests a day stemming from a block of 4000 complaints about online harrassment, trolling or…
What I read in this matches what I see in real life. Some people spend a lot of time on social media doing things that are bad for their mental health. (Comparing their lives to the ultra-filtered images they see on social media, filling their feed with information that is bad for their mental health, etc.) while others use social media to connect with an online support network.
Given that, the calls for banning social media use for kids seem odd, but they are based on that being the easy thing. Blaming big tech will never be unpopular, and there is a possibility that some people might be better off not using social media as much.