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If social media has you down, here's a guide to slowly but surely walk away, temporarily or for good.
There's a lot of different types of social media out there. Whether you're into the image sharing at Instagram, the pithy textual tweets of Twitter, or the uber-networking of everything social at Facebook, they're all more popular than ever.
But they are also under fire as much they've ever been. Do you realize that the first "Quit Facebook Day" was held almost five years ago? The social network was barely out of diapers at that point, and the backlash had already begun. Today, Facebook is the whipping boy of all things wrong with social networking, and maybe for good reason. But it doesn't matter what network you're into: when it takes over your life, it's not a good thing.
Here's my dirty little secretabout the same time that Quit Facebook Day was commencing, I realized I had a big problem with Twitter. I was following fewer than 200 people, maybe half of whom actively updatedbut I was utterly obsessed with never, ever missing a single tweet. I had third-party Twitter apps on my phone, desktop apps running on the side of the screen, SMS alerts, email alerts, you name it. If someone said something clever with 140 characters, I had to know.
Then, one day, I didn't. Well, I did...but the amount of work I wasn't getting done, and the number of real-life friends I was ignoring wasn't worth that. I had to do something radical. So, I cut myself off.
I didn't miss out on anything world-shaking, the globe kept on spinning. Eventually, it felt utterly normal to not be on Twitter all the time.
These days however, I have the same problem with Facebookand at least there, I actually know most of the people.
So, knowing I have a radical chance coming, I analyzed why it's a problem, why it's not that big a deal to take care of it, and best of all, the steps it takes to go off social networking, either piecemeal or cold turkey.
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Connected: Holly Ewins, Jessica Fowler, Madison Lowe and Jasmine Southall have a bit of fun with their tablets. Picture: Simon Santi/The West Australian
Teenage girls are almost glued to social networking sites by the time they reach age 15, a Perth study has found.
In some of the first research in the world to track total screen use in children from the time they wake until they go to sleep, University of WA researchers found 80 per cent of 15-year-olds and almost half of eight-year-olds use screens for more than the recommend two hours a day limit.
Their study of more than 2600 WA students aged eight to 16 argues that current advice on how much children should use television, computers, smartphones and tablets is out of date and "virtually impossible" to enforce.
Excessive screen use has been linked to poor physical and mental health, including an increased risk of depression and anxiety in teenage girls.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommended in 2001 that parents limit screen use in children older than two to fewer than two hours a day and Australian health authorities adopted the guidelines.
Writing in the journal BMC Public Health, the Perth researchers said television was still the most popular screen choice but some children simultaneously used two or three devices.
Lead researcher Stephen Houghton said that though boys were more likely than girls to watch computer games for long periods, girls were the surprising big users of television, the internet and in particular social media.
"Specifically, by 15 years of age girls were almost seven times more likely to exceed the less-than-two-hours recommendation for social networking than boys," he said.
Professor Michael Rosenberg, of UWA's school of sport science, exercise and health, said that though the study's results might discourage parents trying to impose screen limits, they should not give up.
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UNITED NATIONS - France appealed on Thursday for UN member states to work together on an international legal framework that would make social network providers share responsibility for the use of their platforms to spread messages promoting violence.
"There are hate videos, calls for death, propaganda that has not been responded to, and we need to respond," Harlem Desir, French state secretary for European affairs, told reporters on the sidelines of a UN General Assembly meeting on the rising threat of anti-Semitism.
The French call for a radical shift in the way governments treat social networking companies such as Facebook and Twitter came two weeks after Islamist militants killed 17 people in Paris at a satirical magazine and a Kosher supermarket.
"We must limit the dissemination of these messages," Desir said. "We must ... establish a legal framework so the Internet platforms, the large companies managing social networking, so that they're called upon to act responsibly."
Michael Roth, German minister of state for Europe, echoed Desir's remarks. "We need a clear legal framework for the EU and on the international level," Roth said.
Desir called for an international conference in the coming weeks. France announced this week it would recruit thousands of extra police, spies and investigators to boost national security and intelligence.
But this is not enough, Desir said. The world should target militants' use of the Internet and social networks to promote violence and discrimination.
Desir cited child pornography, which social networking companies have banned at the request of governments, saying it should be the same with calls for hatred and violence.
"We believe that the racist remarks, anti-Semitic remarks, spread through the Internet today or in other media do not fall in the category of expressing an opinion," he said.
"Rather there should be law that allows for us to suppress a rejection of others and a call for violence and a call for death."
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Social networks must help stamp out promotion of violence