It's funny that the article tries to help establish the need for a warning label by demonstrating the case against social media for adolescents. The idea that a

It's funny that the article tries to help establish the need for a warning label by demonstrating the case against social media for adolescents. The idea that a warning label on social media would do anything is sort of funny. My impression is that enough people already know that letting phones raise their children is bad, it's a question of what to do about that. Everybody knows it's bad, nobody seems willing to tell their kids no, you can't have a phone, so putting a warning on it is sort of a meaningless gesture. It's the equivalent of raising awareness about global warming. In the case of the Surgeon General's warning on tobacco products, I don't think it was the warning that did anything to cut smoking rates. I think it was changing the laws around who you could sell or advertise tobacco products to, and making cigarettes much more expensive. If you want to do something about social media addiction, consider taking measures as severe as these.