I thought this yesterday when I heard that those 16 or under will not be allowed access to their most used sites. The FT helped me out with the detail

If you are reading this blog, referred by one of these platforms I’d be surprised. The majority of reads from those not subscribing to my blogs on email are referred by Linked in.

How do our kids see our time with eyes attached to a computer or smartphone screen? Might they not with reason ask why they are being picked out!

This young lady was asked what she would do for the 9 hours she currently spends absorbed by her phone. You can watch the BBC Video here, it’s going viral on the sites us adults do not visit

My point is simple. We think our children should be stopped from what many of us do ourselves. We do not have the sense of humour about ourselves to see the funny side of this young lady’s statement.

We too have need of social media, I am as bad as anyone and admit that I rely on linked in for much of what I post. People ask me how I post so much, the answer is to cut and paste – and to embed.

Social media is  a means to reach people with your views or to find out what others think about matters that impact on you,

We are in the early days of social media. I have  been on linked in for less than 20 years, the Times has been a newspaper 10 times that. The Bible has been read since the 15th century in printed form , the earliest forms of lasting comments have been found thousands of years in the Middle East.

We’ll get over our current mania for social media which now allows us to see a virtual world through our glasses!