Digital hygiene
Opinion
Social media
Stop blaming social media and take the phone off your kids
If your teenager is raging out of control because you haven’t enforced strong enough boundaries around devices, maybe it’s time to stop blaming social media and look in the mirror.
- by Nicole Jameson
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Opinion
Social media
We’ve turned kids into outlaws. It won’t work, but we can still make social media safer for them
Australia’s Privacy Commissioner has serious concerns about the laws passed on Friday, but, she explains, we can use privacy legislation to make the internet better for young people.
- by Carly Kind
Opinion
Social media
Off with the pixies: Musk’s X defectors discover their utopia
Millions of former tweeters have taken their spotless minds and ridden, on a butterfly’s wings, to an alternative reality: Bluesky, the microblogging site for progressive idealists.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
Analysis
Analysis
Australians send and receive 8.1 billion emails a day. Most of them are a waste of time
Australia ranks tenth in the world when it comes to how many emails we produce, with 8.1 billion circulated every day. And it’s a big blind spot for us.
- by Tim Duggan
Opinion
Social media
Once I felt love, connection, excitement … but it’s time to break up with my X
I’ve gone from ‘Tweet Ups’ where we’d meet at a cafe to explore this exciting media frontier, to a terrifying digital wasteland straight out of Mad Max.
- by Nic Hayes
Opinion
Social media
Perth family’s trauma shows how social media has polluted our society
Financial crime, sexual exploitation, mental abuse, narcissism, intimidation and misinformation is flooding these platforms, and we need to make it stop now.
- by Gary Adshead
Opinion
Social media
Without a filter, I saw my face and cried. This is the reality for teens on social media
In high school, I covered my mirror with paper to avoid seeing my own reflection. The only time I looked at myself was with a beauty filter applied.
- by Lucia Frazzetto
Opinion
Social media
A social media ban for under-16s won’t work. Here’s what will
Calls have been growing louder for age limits to be raised from 13 to 16. To add to the momentum, some say a ban is the only way to protect our kids. But is it?
- by Nicole Jameson
As it happened: WA news on Wednesday, May 22
Only got a little time between commitments? We’ve collected the day’s headlines here for you to catch up in a flash.
- by Holly Thompson
Opinion
Social media
I don’t let my Perth students have phones at school. It’s time others followed
While our premier has joined other states’ calls for an enforced age limit on social media – a welcomed announcement – there is no doubt society has left it quite late.
- by Belinda Provis
Opinion
Hip pocket
Spring-clean your spend: How to go dark on digital and save big dollars
Our digital devices try to seduce us to spend every time we pick them up. Here’s how to go incognito online and give yourself some mindful money and mental space.
- by Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon
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