> I've got somewhere around 10 years, conservatively, until Instagram/TikTok/YouTube/Facebook/etc. try to get my daughter to kill herself. I've got around 10 ye

> I've got somewhere around 10 years, conservatively, until Instagram/TikTok/YouTube/Facebook/etc. try to get my daughter to kill herself. I've got around 10 years until she is a statistic, hopefully the statistic that survives. You make a fair point gnicholas. If you can reword this sentence in a way that accurately reflects what you think is happening while simultaneously not losing the conciseness of the waters I'm navigating as a parent when I say "in 10 years, Instagram is going to try to get my daughter to kill herself" - I'll gladly edit it and start using that instead. I haven't found a better way to express myself though. Sure apps aren't sentient. They don't have free will. They can't "try to do anything." But language is messy. You're right about losing people in the argument too, that's not a great outcome. Micromacrofoot is spot on as well, you have a generation of parents who understand well that social media is a root rot in our society and evidence showing the people building them _knew_ about the impact it was having on kids. "Bad for mental health" doesn't cut it. I reject any language that dulls the blade of kids committing suicide.