Prince Harry talked about being a father to three-year-old Archie and 11-month-old Lilibet. He called the role inspiring and further encouraged a change in the realm of social media. This all happened in a recent online webinar. He also said social media “isn’t working and needs to be fixed.’”
As of now, the Duke of Sussex has joined the 5Rights Foundation. They have launched the Global Child Online Safety Toolkit webinar. He was seen attending it from his and Duchess Meghan’s Montecito home. The webinar was on the negative effects of the digital and social media world on children.
Prince Harry Is Concerned About Hid Kids’ ‘Age of Innocence‘
Prince Harry talked about the concerns he has regarding the next generation. His speech went as, “As parents, my wife and I are concerned about the next generation growing up in a world where they are treated as digital experiments for companies to make money and where things like hatred and harm are somehow normalized, we want our children and all children to feel empowered to speak up.”
He also spoke about feeling worried for his children – Archie and Lilibet, as they are growing up in a fast-paced digital-first world. “My two little ones are still at their age of innocence. Sometimes I feel like I can keep them away from the online harm that they could face in the future forever, but I’m learning to know better.”
His take on social media today is that it “isn’t working and needs to be fixed,“. He also said that it, “pull us in, keeps us scrolling, gets us angry or anxious—or make us numb to the world around us.”
He also talked about his experience with social media. “I’m not an expert on law or technology, but I am a father—and I’m lucky enough to be a father with a platform. My kids are too young to have experienced the online world yet, and I hope they never have to experience it as it exists now. No kid should have to.”
Prince Harry’s Relation with Social Media
The Duke has always invested himself in matters relating to the world and especially social media. His sentiments on the same found space in an essay for Fast Company. It got published in 2020 and had Harry explaining the workings of social media. It conveyed that such platforms can be potentially dangerous incubators of hatred and misinformation.
One of the points raised by him was, “If we are susceptible to the coercive forces in digital spaces, then we have to ask ourselves—what does this mean for our children? As a father, this is especially concerning to me. It shouldn’t be seen as a coincidence that the rise of social media has been matched by a rise in division amongst us globally.”
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