They said the same thing about video games, and the internet as a whole, and cellphones, and television, and magazines. I'm not going to claim that social medi

They said the same thing about video games, and the internet as a whole, and cellphones, and television, and magazines. I'm not going to claim that social media can't have negative consequences for young people, lots of things do. But the hyperbole behind the discourse makes it obvious there is also a moral panic at work. In every case, technology is blamed for a failure of society's responsibility to educate and raise children properly.