“Scrolling is diabolical”: facing experts from the Élysée, young people talk about their relationship with screens

2024-01-26 21:29:58

The words crack in the air and send a chill through the audience. “We are aware of the risks but, on the other hand, there is this joy that it brings us and this passivity that inhabits us. We cannot refuse, even if we do not agree,” says this teenager. “What’s evil is the scroll. It’s infinite, we get lost in social networks,” adds his friend with an almost contrite air.

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This Friday morning, we are not talking about drug addiction, but about young people’s relationship to cell phones and more broadly to digital technology. While the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron announced that he wanted to establish “control of our screens”, on January 16 during his press conference, the experts he mandated on the subject met on January 26 with a panel of high school students of the Camille-Sée school campus in Paris (15th century).