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What does fearmongering have to do with it? If we go by fearmongering, then the government and society at large would push to put a phone on each and every chi
by deafpolygon 2y ago
What does fearmongering have to do with it?
If we go by fearmongering, then the government and society at large would push to put a phone on each and every child starting from birth.
Your reply conveniently ignores the sharp uptick in suicidal ideation and attempts among teenagers, especially among ages 12-16… with girls the hardest hit.
Expectations for children are now to always be on-call to their peers 24/7 and for parents to always reach them every second of the day with gps tracking to boot.
Social media companies like meta have already been whistleblown as spending an insane amount of time and money using psychology to engineer their applications to be as addicting as possible.
Adults can barely restrain themselves, so why do we expect children to pass unharmed?!
You can sit behind your buzzwords and intellectual wrangling, but there is no denying that social media has a massive negative impact on children and there are ramifications that reach far later in life.