Whenever I deliver workshops to schools on digital wellbeing and literacy, there is feedback that I consistently hear.  ‘This is such an important topic.’  ‘You guys are filling a desperate need.’  ‘They just don’t learn this stuff in school.’  Whilst it reassures me to know that what we are doing is important, I always find it fascinating and frankly, troubling.  Education reform is difficult. Naturally, it is stuck in a cycle of reactive change as new challenges and issues

I watched Louis Theroux's Inside the Manosphere. Here's what I thought (not that anyone asked). I'm a guy who grew up with social media in late teens and early 20s. My algorithm knows exactly who I am. Andrew Tate. HSTikkyTokky. Sneako. These aren't names I searched for. They arrived, gradually and then all at once, until they were just part of the furniture of my feed. Videos saying harmful and at times hateful things about women, about gender, about how men should treat the

When we first started Ctrl Your Scroll, the concept of Digital Wellbeing for most people felt alien. It was something no one had ever really heard of. Much like the term 'Wellbeing' itself 25 years ago, it was often dismissed as a soft concept - very difficult to define and even harder to measure.  Thankfully, the prioritisation of wellbeing in schools over the past 15 years has been dramatic. Serious research, funding and public policy have ensured it is now receiving the at

What it feels like to be on social media during a time of global crisis

In 1946, RJ Reynolds ran an ad campaign with a simple headline: "More Doctors Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette." It worked. Of course it worked. If doctors were smoking, how bad could it be? The ads ran for eight years. By the time the first studies linking cigarettes to lung cancer were published, smoking had already become what people did. At dinner parties. On aeroplanes. In hospital waiting rooms. The habit was infrastructure before it was ever questioned. Social me

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