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Social Media use is probably worse than smoking for kids. Smoking gives you a 15% chance to get cancer in 50 years but instagram gives you a 66% chance of depre
by AbrahamParangi 4y ago
Social Media use is probably worse than smoking for kids. Smoking gives you a 15% chance to get cancer in 50 years but instagram gives you a 66% chance of depression today.
It’s incredibly, empirically unhealthy and it should be banned for children.
- nonethewiser 4y agoSocial media is toxic and addicting. Kids hardly stand a chance against it.
- Mezzie 4y agoWhy let 18 year olds+ use it then? If it's that bad, it sounds more like crack, which we ban for everybody.
- AbrahamParangi 4y agoI’m in favor of autonomy for adults but yeah, that might be a better world.
- Mezzie 4y agoI can respect that position. I tend to be very in favor of autonomy for older kids/adolescents because I think going from 0 to 100 and having them be 18 and fully responsible is going to result in bad decisions. Like we see with drinking, or if we gave kids driver's licenses at 18 with no education. They need a period of time when they have autonomy but also support and some people around them to veto things or else they can't learn to make good decisions.