{"id":902304,"date":"2025-02-03T08:56:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T03:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=902304"},"modified":"2025-02-03T09:23:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T03:53:59","slug":"adolescents-use-smartphones-more-for-social-media-than-educational-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/02\/03\/adolescents-use-smartphones-more-for-social-media-than-educational-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Adolescents use smartphones more for social media than educational activities\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BHUBANESWAR: Access to smartphones among adolescents aged 14-16 is very high in Odisha but a larger chunk of these youngsters use the device for social media &#8211; expectedly so &#8211; than for educational activities. <\/p>\n<p>The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER)-2024, conducted by Pratham Foundation, reveals that about 80.9 per cent of teenagers know how to use a smartphone but only 61.7 pc use the device to engage in an educational activity, while 77.6 pc used it for social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BHUBANESWAR: Access to smartphones among adolescents aged 14-16 is very high in Odisha but a larger chunk of these youngsters use the device for social media &#8211; expectedly so &#8211; than for educational activities. The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER)-2024, conducted by Pratham Foundation, reveals that about 80.9 per cent of teenagers know how to use a smartphone but only 61.7 pc use the device to engage in an educational activity, while 77.6 pc used it for social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-902304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}