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This comment doesn't deserve the downvotes. The surgeon general recently suggested that children should stay off of social media because it's bad for their psy
by shitlord 4y ago
This comment doesn't deserve the downvotes.
The surgeon general recently suggested that children should stay off of social media because it's bad for their psychological development:
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/surgeon-general-kids-under-14-should-not-use-social-media/2023/02 https://www.edweek.org/leadership/surgeon-general-kids-under...
There's growing evidence that social media is also bad for teenagers. Rates of teenage depression and suicidality have increased in recent years, and there is a direct correlation to social media use.
Cigarette companies are viewed as evil because they peddled addictive, cancer-causing products to kids. Our industry is peddling a different type of poison, and I suspect we'll have a similar legacy.