Kate Winslet Challenges Apple Devices As Being Bad For Family Life

Kate Winslet Rules In Alexi Lubomirski Images For Esquire UK November 2015

One of the acclaimed stars of the new movie 'Steve Jobs', British actorKate Winslet just posted a challenging interview with The Sunday Times, arguing that parents are "losing control" of their children to social media. 

Winslet said that social media has a "huge impact on young women's self-esteem", so much so that it made her "blood boil". 

These are tough-talking, fighting words from the mom of three children, proving that beautiful lingerie and posing in sensual, Alexi Lubomirskiimages for Esquire UK in no way invalidate conscientious parenting.

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Talking about young women in particular, Kate expressed concerns that "all they ever do is design themselves for people to like them. " Arguing that the entire social media world is designed to create -- intentionally or otherwise -- eating disorders, Winslet says there is no social media in our house. 

Kate is troubled by the addictive quality of the devices Apple designed, saying that people "practically kiss them goodnight." These trends all make for difficult family-building experiences, with modern families separating into camps even in cafes. Do they speak to each other, asks Winslet? No. They look past each other, with heads buried down in their mobile devices. 

“They go into a world, and parents let them. I’m going to get slagged off for saying this, but it takes every member of a family to be a family, and there are too many interruptions these days — and devices are a huge interruption,” Winslet added. 

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