Fog lifted in Gibraltar for us to have spectacular views from
@GibraltarLitFes
dinner last night,
@ruskin147
& I on this AM as a double act, him playing techno-optimist with ‘Always On’ - me the Cassandra of the tech world with ‘My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open’ 🤦🏼♀️
#author
Love this pic of
#sophiefromromania
😍 - I think it's unlikely
@ruskin147
will persuade her to accompany us to
@oxfordlitfest
but if you fancy hearing about both our books we promise to try v hard to make up for her absence 🤞🏽
There March 31st ⬇️
#books
Came to support
@ruskin147
at his
@GibraltarLitFes
before our joint event tmrw. A v moving account of his mother’s (and his) life in ‘Ruskin Park’. Fascinating too on women’s lives in the ‘50s and the struggle for bright and capable women to move beyond the life of ‘secretary’
Went well! Great audience turn out, for
@ruskin147
and me bantering about the world’s tech problems. V happy to have our fellow authors there too - what a lovely experience the
@GibraltarLitFes
has been. Diverted plane, fog and all! ✈️🇬🇮
Thanks
@ruskin147
for making me cry this weekend, when I finally finished Ruskin Park. A moving and fascinating account of women’s struggles for meaningful work in the 50s, and the life of the indomitable Sylvia. Loved every page but my favourite is probably the frontispiece 💙
Signing books with
@ruskin147
after our
@oxfordlitfest
event - expertly chaired by
@highamnews
. Great fun, brilliant questions and then lunch afterwards and lots of gossip with Brasenose Principal John Bowers. All the treats for us today 🙌🏽
@BNC_Members
🎉’My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open’ is OUT TODAY and I did try and juggle multiple copies of the book to make the point…but dexterity failed me, so here I am with just the two [handsome though aren’t they🤩?].
#TooManyTabs
#PublicationDay
📚 Seems unlikely the event will really be about
#tech
as updates on
#SophiefromRomania
will undoubtedly steal the show (💙) but
@ruskin147
& I are
@oxfordlitfest
March 31st so come along to hear about the iPhone, Elon Musk and, of course, Sophie!🐕
🎟️ 👉🏼
📚Arrived in Oxford for my event with
@ruskin147
at
@oxfordlitfest
tomorrow - not too late to pick up tickets to see us with
@highamnews
Fri 31st at NOON
🎟️
[pretty special view from my overnight accommodation
@brasenosejcr
]
📘WELL, as if this week couldn’t get any MORE exciting - advance copies of my new book are IN! It’s an absolute beauty. Even better than I imagined it from the proofs 😍
#TooManyTabs
🇺🇸 🇬🇧 Out 21st September in US and UK [link in bio to pre-order👆🏽]
#author
#book
@QuartoKnows
Food for thought on the phones-in-schools debate? 👉🏻A US teacher had her students turn their phone volumes up and created a collective record of the phone notifications they all received in a *single* lesson.
#education
#parenting
🎙 “Social media is a great mover for social justice when it’s employed properly”
The powerhouse that is
@ForbesUnder30
#fitness
entrepreneur
@gracebeverley
is on ‘It’s Complicated’ talking about inclusivity in fitness & making your feed count.
#podcast
Absolutely loving this from
@herdyshepherd1
. Beautiful, lyrical book about our changing relationship with the land and what ruthless supermarket practices have done to farmers. Feels like an elegy for the old ways... hoping it’s also a call to arms!🐑
#farming
#BackBritishFarming
Historic day for THIS little girl today who becomes the first British princess in history not to be immediately demoted in the line of succession by the birth of a younger brother. About time!
#RoyalBaby
#girlpower
#PuppetMaster
on
@Netflix
is jaw-dropping stuff. But the absolute star is Sarah Smith’s Dad - what a legend. He just never gave up. Can we get him a medal? 🎖
📚Join
@ruskin147
and me at
@oxfordlitfest
on March 31st to talk about our two
#books
, living in the smartphone era, and all the big movers and shakers in digital; Steve, Mark, Elon and - of course - Sophie 🐕💙
Tickets here ➡️
#sophiefromromania
As doctors issue official guidance on children’s use of phones and laptops, experts (incl me) explain how to keep screen time healthy — for kids and grown-ups
#parenting
#screentime
#WednesdayWisdom
5️⃣0️⃣🤙🏼It’s 50 years ago TODAY that the first ever mobile phone call was made - so just a reminder that my latest book is out in paperback this summer ☺️
My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open: Untangle Your Relationship With Tech
Pre-order now ➡️
#BookTwitter
NEW
#digitalwellbeing
& young people (12-16yrs) report
❗️60% feel time spent online negatively impacts their sleep, diet, exercise & study
❗️46% consider themselves addicted to their phone
❗️18% want
#parents
to help more with reducing time online
🎙Couldn’t be happier S4 of ‘It’s Complicated’ launches with hugely inspiring 3x Olympic champion
@PeteReed
in his first ever
#podcast
interview. 👉🏼👈🏼 On change, resilience, and the athlete mindset that’s helping him meet his biggest challenge yet
#rowing
🎉 Stop Staring at Screens is HERE. With a foreword from
@DrMarkGriffiths
👍🏻 it’s your manual for everything that needs fixing about screens at home. Get your copy in all good bookshops and here 👉🏻
#digitaldetox
#parenting
#booklaunch
Do we really know what we’re signing up for when we click "I accept the terms and conditions"? Now an AI browser-extension sums it up visually for you and helps you protect your data.
#polisis
#privacy
#esafety
#CyberSecurity
#bigdata
Very excited to reveal the cover of my new book, and it’s a beauty 🤩
#MyBrainHasTooManyTabsOpen
is out 7th Sept in the US and UK -available to pre-order now.
Our bad digital habits are damaging lives. THIS is what we can all do about it👇🏽
📚
#author
“Social media portrays people in a ‘perfect’ way. It ...causes young teens like myself to compare ourselves to an impossible life/appearance. I think it damages people’s self esteem and makes them question their self worth.” 14.
#mentalhealth
#digitaldetox
I designed a 7-day digital detox and
@guardian
challenged six busy media & tech people to give it a go. Find out what they discovered when they divorced their phones for a week.
#digitaldetox
#BlueMonday
📚I’m a big fan of
@bookshop_org_UK
which is supporting local, independent, bookshops in the fight back against monopolistic online book retailers (mentioning no names😉). You can find both of my books on there:
👉🏽
#books
#author
#reading
New report shows teens badly losing sleep to screens: A third of boys (v 28% girls) report being on mobiles after 11pm on typical school nights. Including nearly a quarter after midnight and 8% saying 2am or later.
#digitaldetox
#screentime
#sleep
@PeteReed
I still vividly remember when my big toe first twitched, and the nurse told me she couldn’t see anything! 18 months after that I walked without sticks. Keep going 💪🏻
At the beginning of the year I designed a 7-day digital detox and
@guardian
challenged six busy media & tech people to give it a go.
Find out what they discovered when they divorced their phones for a week.
#digitaldetox
#WednesdayWisdom
Is ‘secondhand screen time’ the new secondhand smoking?
👉🏻Something we don’t talk about enough, the impact of ADULT screentime on children.
#digitaldetox
#parenting
#screentime
Proud to be an alumna of a school leading the way in
#socialmobility
since 1552💪🏼
“
@CHSchoolHorsham
spent nearly as much on average per pupil on
#bursaries
and scholarships as the next four schools — Eton College, Taunton, Wellington & Dulwich — combined.”
#education
#OldBlue
Social media firms barred from ‘addictive' features to keep children online in new legal code. Firms should not use ‘sticky’ features such as notifications, continuous scrolling, auto-play or reward loops in games or videos.
#digitaldetox
#cybersafety
Shocking new report from IWF finds nearly 1 in 3 of child abuse sexual images online are
#selfies
from young girls tricked into performing acts via webcams. 80% are between the ages of 11-13. Help
@IWFhotline
take them down 👉🏻
#childsafety
#cybersafety
Isle of Man introduces a smartphone bans to help visitors with digital detox - and their ‘analogue pack’ includes copies of my book ‘Off’ 🙌🏻
#digitaldetox
“Every day, children are flooded with information that is not mediated or moderated. This means they can be exposed to anger, prejudice and inappropriate content, and be vulnerable to exploitation.”
#cybersafety
#children
#digitaldetox
Parents take note 👉🏻Gwyneth Paltrow's daughter Apple hits back at her mother for Instagram picture “Mom we have discussed this. You may not post anything without my consent.”
#parenting
#digitaldetox
#privacy
📖🇺🇸🇨🇦TODAY my little book on building a better balance with tech launches in North America!
It’s got a beautiful new cover too. 😍
Pick up a copy and start living healthily and happily with your smartphone today. ✅
#digitaldetox
#phoneaddiction
The ‘cot with built-in ipad’ is plumbing new depths. Why have a child in the first place if you’re going to plug it in to tech 24:7 instead of reading/talking to them..?
#parenting
#families
#digitaldetox
Returned to my old school
@CHSchoolHorsham
today to talk to some of the younger yrs about their relationship with tech. Brilliantly lively bunch - loved spending time with them. Haven’t been back since the last day of my UVIth - forgot how beautiful it is 💙
#OldBlue
#education
“Only when I tried to quit social networks did I realise how addictive and enveloping they are designed to be. Now I am convinced we are heading for a public health crisis”
#digitaldetox
#health
#mentalhealth
‼️THIRD of parents of 5-7 yr olds say child has
#socialmedia
profile
🙁1 in 3 of 8-11 yr olds using social media have a TikTok a/c
❗️TikTok 13+
🤦🏻 22% of parents 3-4 yrs
🤦🏻 38% of
#parents
8-11 yrs WOULD allow social media a/c before minimum age 🙄
👉🏼
‘By the age of 13, parents have posted 1300 photos & videos of their child to social media.’ One of my strong recommendations to parents when I talk to them in schools is to restrict posts of kids to PRIVATE platforms
#education
#parenting
‘TikTok is a data collection service thinly veiled as a social network.’
Facebook had a data scandal & Instagram a security issue re. user accounts. But these are online security havens compared to
#TikTok
, says engineer.
#BigData
#privacy
#CyberSafety
Smartphone 'addiction': Young people 'panicky' when denied mobiles.
Almost 25% so dependent on phones it becomes ‘like an addiction’, new research by
@KingsCollegeLon
says.
(🤔Prepare for onslaught of comment from those denying kids are feeling this.)
Increasingly, companies use a variety of tactics to block access to repair - and electronic waste is the fastest growing part of our waste. It’s often quite toxic, containing lead, chromium & toxic flame retardants
#environment
#righttorepair
#digitaldetox
🇹🇭📕Loving seeing all the photos from Bangkok following the launch of the Thai edition of ‘My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open’.Rather wishing I was there!
#author
#digitaldetox
👀Your Kids Think You’re Addicted to Your Phone: new study finds that while parents feel increasingly glued to their phones, attitudes among teens are moving in the opposite direction
#digitaldetox
#parenting
#screentime
Hilarious piece from
@themoko
should be compulsory reading today 👉🏻👉🏻 ‘Happy International Women’s Day! Have a Sticker (It’s Not Just Your Ovaries That We’re Celebrating)’
#IWD2019
#InternationalWomensDay
Pretty special to be invited back to Brasenose College last night to talk about my career as an
#entrepreneur
. Brilliant audience, met fab
@AlexandraEavis
, dined off the College silver and was finally allowed to park in Radcliffe Square. 🙌🏻 Hard to top.
#entrepreneurship
Women (and men) at
@BBC
walked out at 4.22pm today - the time women stopped getting paid on the 9-5 work clock - because of the BBC’s 9% pay gap
#EqualPay
#IWD2018
#WomensDay
@CamillaTominey
Everything about this was so spot on
@CamillaTominey
- “like turning up at the opening night of a West End Show, only to discover that the lead part was being played by the understudy.” 😔
🇳🇿 I love the
#kiwis
. Brilliant ad using humour to get over a serious issue.
‘Porn stars’ deployed in NZ Government’s online safety campaign.
This is SO worth a watch.
👉🏽
#parenting
#cybersafety
#onlinesafety
You’re Tracked Everywhere You Go Online. Use This Guide to Fight Back.
(You can’t stop all of it, but you don’t have to give up.)
#cybersecurity
#privacy
#bigdata
“While tech may have changed beyond recognition over the past 20 yrs – children have remained the same. They may not admit it but they still want grown-ups to set boundaries” 🙌🏽
@CamillaTominey
(have been saying this all
#ChildrensMentalHealthWeek
to parents in schools too)