Tech billionaire Peter Thiel says he only allows his children 1.5 hours of screen time per week

• Peter Thiel said he only allows his children to use screens for an hour and a half a week.

• There is a growing campaign by US officials to regulate social media use among children.

• Other tech company CEOs, such as Evan Spiegel and Sundar Pichai, are also limiting their children’s screen time.

Social media is for you, but not for me. Or my kids, says Peter Thiel.

during conversation With the journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin At the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado on Thursday, Thiel, the PayPal co-founder and Facebook’s first outside investor, revealed that he doesn’t like his kids to spend a lot of time in front of screens during the week.

Sorkin asked Thiel about the recent announcement by U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy that his office would push for Tags on social media platforms Warnings about the risks it poses to children’s health. Meta, Facebook’s parent company, is also at risk. Lawsuit from 33 states Some say Facebook and Instagram are bad for young people’s mental health.

Thiel said it was “very easy” to make big tech companies the scapegoat “for all of our problems.” However, he said there was “an interesting critique one could make” about the fact that many social media executives are limiting their children’s screen time.

Thiel said he allows his kids just an hour and a half of screen time a week. Thiel’s kids are young — 3 and 5 — so that seems like a reasonable limit. But kids are using the internet as young as 12. increasingly younger agesClaim Worrying about raising a generation of “iPad kids.”

Thiel isn’t the first tech leader to admit that he strictly limits his kids’ screen time. Evan Spiegel, CEO of Snapchat, said: It also limits He reduced his 8-year-old’s screen time to an hour and a half a week.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai previously said that he did not give his middle-aged son a cell phone, and that all the TVs in his home worked. Locked with “activation energy” This makes watching TV not easily available.

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