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How can you protect children from the absolute devastating effects of social media on children, by banning it for adults?

voidfunc 2y ago
Demonizing social media is this generations version of demonizing rock and roll. It's so tiring.
- usr1106 2y ago
  The harm of social media is closer to alcohol or tobacco. Addiction, even though with milder physical conseques. Nothing to do with demonizing.
- poilcn 2y ago
  Is it? You can see the actual harm caused by web sites. Doomscrolling in all age groups. Going to bed very late at night. Girls having body dysmorphia cause of instagram. Young men having porn addition and having no ambition to interact with real women
  - Aerroon 2y ago
    None of these sound like they are a very big problem compared to many alternative things people do. People talk about social media as though it's lead paint. I particularly liked that one Facebook study that is usually taken out of context.
  - eimrine 2y ago
    The latter is the scariest but the least binded to a social media (except of underground ones which will never have age verification anyway).
  - throwthrow4567 2y ago
    > young men having porn addition and having no ambition to interact with real women this made me lol so much. porn addition is not the cause, but the consequence. do you have any idea how hard it is for males to find a willing mate nowadays? most females have men fighting over them, while most men must always do the fighting to get even one low-quality female in their entire life.
    - ryan-c 2y ago
      I wish you could see your comment as most people see it. When you refer to "males" and "females", and especially use terms like "low-quality female" you sound absolutely unhinged.
      - throwthrow4567 2y ago
        or realistic maybe? people are too keen to forget that we share 98.8% DNA with chimps...
- GeoAtreides 2y ago
  just because thing A was (unjustly) demonized doesn't mean demonizing thing B is without merit, even more so when thing A and thing B are completely unrelated.
labster 2y ago
I mean there has been at least one genocide planned on social media. Maybe adults were the real danger after all.
- eimrine 2y ago
  Does Ukrainian's Revolution of Dignity counts?
Timwi 2y ago
I agree with the OP that the ban is woefully undemocratic, and that banning it for children only is a grave misstep. I think what they should ban instead is recommendation algorithms. If I subscribe to a source, and explicitly unsubscribe from another, it should be illegal to withhold some of the first’s postings and shove the second’s in my face. This should be a no-brainer and has nothing to do with the age of the user; but it's easier to just ban the people who, as OP correctly noted, have no representation and no recourse.

voidfunc 2y ago

Demonizing social media is this generations version of demonizing rock and roll. It's so tiring.

usr1106 2y ago
The harm of social media is closer to alcohol or tobacco. Addiction, even though with milder physical conseques. Nothing to do with demonizing.
poilcn 2y ago
Is it? You can see the actual harm caused by web sites. Doomscrolling in all age groups. Going to bed very late at night. Girls having body dysmorphia cause of instagram. Young men having porn addition and having no ambition to interact with real women
- Aerroon 2y ago
  None of these sound like they are a very big problem compared to many alternative things people do. People talk about social media as though it's lead paint. I particularly liked that one Facebook study that is usually taken out of context.
- eimrine 2y ago
  The latter is the scariest but the least binded to a social media (except of underground ones which will never have age verification anyway).
- throwthrow4567 2y ago
  > young men having porn addition and having no ambition to interact with real women this made me lol so much. porn addition is not the cause, but the consequence. do you have any idea how hard it is for males to find a willing mate nowadays? most females have men fighting over them, while most men must always do the fighting to get even one low-quality female in their entire life.
  - ryan-c 2y ago
    I wish you could see your comment as most people see it. When you refer to "males" and "females", and especially use terms like "low-quality female" you sound absolutely unhinged.
    - throwthrow4567 2y ago
      or realistic maybe? people are too keen to forget that we share 98.8% DNA with chimps...
GeoAtreides 2y ago
just because thing A was (unjustly) demonized doesn't mean demonizing thing B is without merit, even more so when thing A and thing B are completely unrelated.

labster 2y ago

I mean there has been at least one genocide planned on social media. Maybe adults were the real danger after all.

eimrine 2y ago
Does Ukrainian's Revolution of Dignity counts?

Timwi 2y ago

I agree with the OP that the ban is woefully undemocratic, and that banning it for children only is a grave misstep. I think what they should ban instead is recommendation algorithms. If I subscribe to a source, and explicitly unsubscribe from another, it should be illegal to withhold some of the first’s postings and shove the second’s in my face. This should be a no-brainer and has nothing to do with the age of the user; but it's easier to just ban the people who, as OP correctly noted, have no representation and no recourse.