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Parents and Youth Discussion Guide: Suggestion: Put Away All Devices For A Minimum of 2 Hours To Watch and Discuss

The document provides discussion questions for parents and youth about social media use. It suggests putting away devices for 2 hours to watch a movie together and discuss the questions, which include: the benefits and problems of social media; how social media can manipulate users; the negative effects of social media like increased anxiety and depression; and how families and individuals can limit negative impacts and share love on social media.

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Parents and Youth Discussion Guide: Suggestion: Put Away All Devices For A Minimum of 2 Hours To Watch and Discuss

The document provides discussion questions for parents and youth about social media use. It suggests putting away devices for 2 hours to watch a movie together and discuss the questions, which include: the benefits and problems of social media; how social media can manipulate users; the negative effects of social media like increased anxiety and depression; and how families and individuals can limit negative impacts and share love on social media.

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PARENTS AND

YOUTH
DISCUSSION
GUIDE
SUGGESTION:
Put away all
devices for a
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minimum of 2
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MIDDLE SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL PARENTS -

PARENTS - Watch, then Watch together as a family

decide if your youth and discuss the questions on

should watch with you. the other side.


the social Technology is a tool. Tools wait
patiently. Social media is no
longer a tool. It's manipulation.
dilemma In what ways do you think you are

being manipulated? Can you give


DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
specific examples?

ASK: What are the benefits of


Name some of the negative
social media use? What are
effects of social media (increase
the problems? Do the benefits
in anxiety, depression, suicide
of social media outweigh the
among teens, fake news,
negative issues?
dysmorphia, massacres, election

manipulation). When or where


Watch movie, then continue the
have you experienced these
conversation:
effects? When have you been

triggered by a post (algorithm)?


"If you aren't paying for the
What steps can be taken as a
product, you are the product."
family or as individuals to limit
When you heard this comment,
these effects?
how did you feel? What's the

difference between being a


As people of faith, who are we
consumer and being consumed?
called to be? How are we called

to act and interact on social


When using social media, data is
media? Where can we look for
being gathered to build models
hope? How can we share love?
and predict actions, so the tech

companies can increase When you are finished with the

engagement, growth, and discussion, try an experiment,

Google the same question on


advertising. What actions do you
each person's device and see if
think the tech companies can
you get different answers?

predict about you? (Example inquiry: the earth is)

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