{"id":7223,"date":"2025-12-06T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/social-media-children-brain-rot\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T20:00:00","slug":"social-media-children-brain-rot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/social-media-children-brain-rot\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Concerned to Find That Five-Year-Olds Are Already Deeply Hooked on Brain Rot Content"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The brains of neurotypical children under the age of five years old experience a turbo-charged growth spurt<\/a> that takes them from drooling infants to potty-trained kids ready to learn their ABCs in school.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why it\u2019s so worrisome that we\u2019re inadvertently subjecting a large group of these children to an epic amount of internet brain rot that\u2019s disrupting that crucial period, according to an analytical report<\/a> from researchers at the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), a British policy group focused on people in poverty \u2014 a state of affairs that\u2019s likely resulting in sprawling deleterious outcomes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got two children [in my class] who physically cannot sit on the carpet,\u201d said one teacher quoted in the report. \u201cThey don\u2019t have core strength. And when I went to visit one of the girls in July, she\u2019d never been to a nursery, she\u2019d been sat in a corner sofa on an iPad so she hasn\u2019t developed her core strength and it\u2019s really affecting her whole development.\u201d<\/p>\n

The impact from this massive uncontrolled experiment is already being felt, according to the CSJ researchers, with children suffering \u201canxiety and sleep disturbances\u201d due to the onslaught of low-quality videos and other content on social media. Research elsewhere has found that kids who use social media test lower<\/a> on memory and reading tests, and that increased screen time<\/a> induces depression and addictive behavior for all age groups.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis research is deeply alarming,\u201d said Lord Nash, British House of Lords member and former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Schools, as quoted by CSJ in their report. \u201cWith hundreds of thousands of under-fives now on these platforms, children who haven\u2019t yet learned to read, being fed content and algorithms designed to hook adults, should concern us all.\u201d<\/p>\n

CSJ based their work on a May 2025 report<\/a> from the UK\u2019s Office of Communications (Ofcom), which surveyed British parents on their children\u2019s attitude towards and use of media. The research from Ofcom found that about one in five children ages three to five have independently used social media; also alarmingly, it found that a quarter of eight to nine-year-old kids who game online have engaged with strangers in these interactive environments, making them a popular place for child predators<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The same Ofcom report found that 37 percent of parents surveyed admitted that their three-to-five-year-old kids have access to social media, a startling increase from the already-high figure of 29 percent about three years ago; CSJ took this figure, performed population data calculations on it, and estimated that it encompasses 814,000 British children who are now frying their brains with the dumbest memes and video clips imaginable.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are concerned about rising anxiety and identity-based distress linked to persistent stimulation from screens, with schools reporting declining attention and behavior linked to online norms,\u201d the researchers wrote.<\/p>\n

To get kids back to a healthy state, CSJ has recommended that any age restrictions on social media should be raised to 16 years old, that schools should ban smartphones from classes, and that there ought to be a national campaign to raise awareness on the public health hazards of social media and internet use.<\/p>\n

More on children\u2019s mental health:<\/strong> Something Grim Is Happening to Kids Who Got Cell Phones Early<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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