5 ways Christian parents can help their youth and children combat the impact of social media algorithms

Christian parents can help their children broaden their sources of online information - Andy Flannagan explains how

In my last two articles we saw:

1. how we and our children are faced with a technological problem, whereby the technology we use (and the companies behind them) push us to attend to the immediate rather than the longer-term relationships in front of us and
2. how we and our young people have an image problem where secondary identities take the place of our primary identity as made in the image of God.

These combine lead us to situation where we and our kids are increasingly tempted and encouraged to group into tighter tribes and demonise the ‘other’. This is not working out well for our society.

But rather than simply railing at technology companies or political figures we do need to look at our own hearts and lives and those of our families

But rather than simply railing at technology companies or political figures we do need to look at our own hearts and lives and those of our families. Let’s remind ourselves of what Jesus has to say