{"id":38957,"date":"2025-05-20T10:05:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T10:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/almost-half-of-young-people-would-prefer-a-world-without-internet-uk-study-finds-12\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T10:05:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T10:05:35","slug":"almost-half-of-young-people-would-prefer-a-world-without-internet-uk-study-finds-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/almost-half-of-young-people-would-prefer-a-world-without-internet-uk-study-finds-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Half of 16- to 21-year-olds support \u2018digital curfew\u2019 and nearly 70% feel worse after using social media<\/p>\n<p>Almost half of young people would rather live in a world where the internet does not exist, according to a new survey.<\/p>\n<p>The research reveals that nearly 70% of 16- to 21-year-olds feel worse about themselves after spending time on social media. Half (50%) would support a \u201cdigital curfew\u201d that would restrict their access to certain apps and sites past 10pm, while 46% said they would rather be young in a world without the internet altogether.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/may\/20\/almost-half-of-young-people-would-prefer-a-world-without-internet-uk-study-finds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half of 16- to 21-year-olds support \u2018digital curfew\u2019 and nearly 70% feel worse after using social media Almost half of young people would rather live in a world where the internet does not exist, according to a new survey. The research reveals that nearly 70% of 16- to 21-year-olds feel worse about themselves after spending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}