Así se creó el primer movimiento viral contra las pantallas
One year after Elisabet García Permanyer started a single WhatsApp group in Barcelona's Poblenou neighborhood, this retrospective by Jordi Pérez Colomé — written for El País and carried by La Nación — traces how that group grew into hundreds of local chapters and more than 30,000 participating families across Spain organized around delaying children's first smartphone to age 16. Drawing on an interview with García Permanyer, the piece recounts her account of a personal, almost accidental start — "my goal was personal, I wanted fewer teenagers to have phones" — and her acknowledgment of the irony of using phones and group chats to coordinate resistance to phones. It also notes that a French broadcaster and an independent journalist had each filmed documentary material involving the movement, unreleased at the time of writing. The article presents the coordinated family pact, rather than individual restriction, as the movement's central organizing idea.
One year after founding, the movement encompassed more than 30,000 participating families across Spain, per the article.
Pérez Colomé, Jordi. "Así se creó el primer movimiento viral contra las pantallas." El País, republished by La Nación, November 17, 2024.