You may have heard about the amusing, er, debate between adult movie superstar Ron Jeremy and the video game industry:
Violent video games have "a much bigger negative influence on kids" than pornography, a leading porn star has claimed
Who's right? Neither. There are no big negative influences on today's kids, at least, none that have only recently started. Kids today are better behaved than they were 20 or 25 years ago, before any of the supposedly morally corrosive new technologies arrived to corrupt their minds: mobile phones, social networking, internet porn, violent video games...
Those are some strong claims I just made. The fear that something is very wrong in 21st century society, and that new technology has something to do with it, is widespread - whether the panic be about sexting, cyberbullying, the Facebook Generation, whatever - but the statistics tell a quite different and more positive story.
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