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re: Social Media Can Be a ‘Profound Risk’ to Youth, Surgeon General Warns?
Posted on 5/23/23 at 1:57 pm to Salmon
Posted on 5/23/23 at 1:57 pm to Salmon
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Ask why are kids using social media so much? Why are parents allowing kids to use social media so much? Why can some people use social media just fine while others become addicted?
Lets be honest, it has become just as addictive for their parents. And there are a lot of parents that don't want to take the time to let their kid be bored instead of constantly engaging in something. That would mean they have to actively parent/occupy the time of their kid.
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Posted on 5/23/23 at 1:58 pm to Prisms
Meh, probably only affects 1% of them
Posted on 5/23/23 at 1:58 pm to Salmon
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Dumb.
Blaming superficial stuff like social media on wide sweeping problems is just low hanging fruit.
Ask why are kids using social media so much? Why are parents allowing kids to use social media so much? Why can some people use social media just fine while others become addicted?
Blaming social media on everything will never solve anything. It's a symptom. It isn't the virus.
You're normally smarter than this.
Read up on the studies of the negative psychological effects of smart phones and social media and get back. It'll blow your mind.
Posted on 5/23/23 at 1:59 pm to Prisms
There is a WaitButWhy post from a few years back that calls this out in detail and discusses how social media breaks kid's mind through manipulating how they perceive their social status in relation to their peers. It was eye opening.
Posted on 5/23/23 at 2:00 pm to Prisms
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But social media also brims with “extreme, inappropriate and harmful content,” the advisory noted, including content that “normalizes” self-harming
As much as trans shite is posted on tigerdroppings it has to be helping with the "normalizing" it.
Every other kid must be getting gender reassigning surgery as much as people talk about it here.
Posted on 5/23/23 at 2:06 pm to A Smoke Break
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Read up on the studies of the negative psychological effects of smart phones and social media and get back. It'll blow your mind.
No. I completely understand how harmful social media can be to people's minds.
My main point is, why can some people handle social media and other cannot? Why do some kids become addicted, and others don't give a shite about social media?
Anytime there is an issue with a thing, I always like to focus on the people that can live with and be successful with the thing, rather the people that cannot. Social media is here to stay. Instead of just putting more regulations on it, how about we figure out how people successfully navigate it and emulate that.
I've always used the gun analogy with social media.
I would much rather teach my kids how to use it the right way, rather than just telling them its bad and never touch it and then they eventually discover it on their own and have no idea how to safely use it.
Posted on 5/23/23 at 2:07 pm to Prisms
Imagine how dangerous social media is….. in Florida
Posted on 5/23/23 at 2:11 pm to Salmon
quote:My kid was not allowed snap chat, until I examined his phone and found he was hiding it by logging in and out and deleting it between uses. I mentioned it to many other parents, and they reply "yeah, we dont let so and so have it". But I can promise you they were all on it. Be Real, tik tok, snap chat, instagram..they have them all and they are assholes on em. My son now has to turn in phone every night at 9pm.
I just strongly believe that there are underlying issues that drive those affects and those issues are the things that are more important to address if we actually want to solve anything.
They are sneaky little folks, spare me the 'mine would not do it if he was told not to', I thought the same, as do the parents of the dozens of kids I saw constant posts from on snap chat. To his credit he did not have tik tok or insta on it. We allow bereal.
The stuff these teen girls post is absolutely mind numbing.
Posted on 5/23/23 at 2:12 pm to Salmon
quote:And I would not allow my 13 year old to carry. The same reason they dont handle social media correctly
I've always used the gun analogy with social media.
I would much rather teach my kids how to use it the right way, rather than just telling them its bad and never touch it and then they eventually discover it on their own and have no idea how to safely use it.
Posted on 5/23/23 at 2:17 pm to tigerfoot
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And I would not allow my 13 year old to carry. The same reason they dont handle social media correctly
Right. Just like I wouldn't allow my 13 year old unrestricted free usage of my guns, I also wouldn't allow them unrestricted free usage of social media.
Slowly introduce and you should know when they are mature enough to handle and how much. Every kid should be different.
Like you said in the your earlier post, pure abstinence isn't realistic.
Posted on 5/23/23 at 2:17 pm to Prisms
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Posted on 5/23/23 at 2:53 pm to Salmon
Like AI is doing now, “that ship has sailed.”
Best you can do is limit the use, but it’s replaced the phone (even texting) as primary communication vehicle.
Best you can do is limit the use, but it’s replaced the phone (even texting) as primary communication vehicle.
Posted on 5/23/23 at 2:55 pm to Prisms
So he's admitting that grooming is not only a thing but that it works.
Posted on 5/23/23 at 2:57 pm to Salmon
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My main point is, why can some people handle social media and other cannot? Why do some kids become addicted, and others don't give a shite about social media?
Same reasons why people can binge on booze once a month and others have a single sip and they're completely off the wagon.
Also why marijuana is psychologically addictive to some and not to others.
I really think social media is addictive to those predisposed to addictive personalities.
Posted on 5/23/23 at 3:16 pm to A Smoke Break
Social media addiction is much more socially acceptable. The majority of folks addicted can’t get thru traffic without staring at their phones.
My wife has Facebook. I have TD. That’s all we need to have.
My wife has Facebook. I have TD. That’s all we need to have.
Posted on 5/23/23 at 3:54 pm to Salmon
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I've always used the gun analogy with social media.
IMO, it's more akin to alcohol. Kids shouldn't use it, and a lot of adults shouldn't either
I don't really see any positives regarding social media, best case scenario you have a healthy relationship with it and it's still just a giant waste of time.
Posted on 5/23/23 at 4:17 pm to CocomoLSU
Social media is straight up a net negative. Real person to person physical relationships are healthy.
Social media does not offer that at all.
Unless you are teaching your kid to be a marketing guru They should straight up abstain from all social media use.
Yes, even if all of their friends are doing it.
Social media does not offer that at all.
Unless you are teaching your kid to be a marketing guru They should straight up abstain from all social media use.
Yes, even if all of their friends are doing it.
Posted on 5/23/23 at 4:53 pm to USMCguy121
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