Louise McSharry

Yeah.

I was really glad to see it.

We're going to stay with the internet now because we have mentioned a couple of times that there was a case going on in the US regarding a young woman's social media addiction and whether or not certain social media platforms were liable for that addiction.

That case is over now and a US jury has found that Instagram and YouTube are liable for that young woman's social media addiction.

This feels kind of seismic.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, look, it's so it's so tricky.

It's such a tricky thing because, you know, I know there will be people who will say, well, it's up to parents to control how much their children use their smartphones or how much children use devices.

And like, that's true.

It is a very difficult thing to navigate because there are different rules in every house.

And, you know, once your kids get to be an age where they're out in the world, maybe without you, you have less control, obviously, over things.

I think it's interesting.

There was a report in The New York Times that I saw widely shared this week about Greystones having tried to give children a phone free childhood, essentially.

And they had all, you know, agreed that they that they wouldn't have smart devices, basically.

And like there are lots of efforts like that being made right across the country.

I know certainly in my school and the principal, my school, the school my kids go to and the principal kind of took it on herself and went and met with other local schools and employed a kind of contract that parents, you know, voluntarily signed to say that they wouldn't.

give their children smartphones until the end of primary school.

And the thought was, you know, we can do it in our school.

But if you don't have the other schools on board, then you know, when the kids are down at the playground, or wherever it is that they are, it's going to be difficult.

So if you could get all the schools involved, then it might be easier.