“Should We Encourage Our Children To Join Social Media?”, India Currents, July 19, 2023:

“When I was raising my children back in the eighties, my only concern was to keep their screen time under check; no TV time until homework is done. I did not subscribe to cable television until my children were in college. I didn’t even have the internet to deal with. Now, as a 77-year-old grandfather learning about the powers of social media, I am so glad that there was none of it when I was raising my children.

It’s not technophobia. Being an engineer, my joy knew no bounds when the internet arrived at my workplace in the early 1990s. I was one of the few engineers who pushed the management to computerize all our data and allow us access to the internet. 

I started tinkering with social media around 12 years ago, when I joined Facebook and Twitter, simply out of curiosity. I use these platforms primarily to share photos, articles, and my views on policy issues – topics that I think are either entertaining or educational…..”

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