Yeah, except that kids are communicating with each other through those mechanisms, and increasingly seem to be required to for schoolwork. So you have the comp

Yeah, except that kids are communicating with each other through those mechanisms, and increasingly seem to be required to for schoolwork. So you have the companies providing the communication mechanisms intentionally manipulating the communication to encourage specific behaviour. A very simple “you cannot reorder or promote content for people less than X” rule would do a lot to reduce the problem for kids. Once you’re an adult you can be just as free to get addicted to Facebook as you are beer. Before then Social media companies should be subject to similar rules that we have for alcohol. SM at least have the advantage that they can just completely remove the intentionally addictive reordering algorithms, whereas alcohol companies can’t make a meaningfully similar simulacrum when then extract the alcohol.