re: Texas bill: under 18 banned from social media

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cartoons is probably more destructive than kids going after each other on social media,

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Ehh I don’t know about that. Destructive sure, just different.

Friend who works with a lot of middle/high school girls explained it to me that the social media never gives a kid a break from the shite they experience at school.

In the past girls would talk shite or be catty to one another within the confines of a school day. Now it extends into the afternoon/evening/late night. In the developing mind having some other kids at your throat/bullying whatever you want to call it causes a damn near constant state of fight/flight for some of these kids.

Where you could previously go home, regroup, everyone kinda lose interest now it’s just relentless.

Obviously you’d expect good parents to be able to step in here but it’s just a different world and I think the main reason you’re seeing episodes of mental illness skyrocketing.

this will be right up there with lbj's signing of the civil rights act impact on texas politics. the little spoiled kayleigh and jaxon will have their tik tok. big mistake. government needs to get out of peoples lives..

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Government over reach much? Are they playing the job of parents now???

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We’ve banned cigarette and alcohol companies from advertising to kids (and off course banned their sale to kids entirely). As THC products become widely available, similar rules seem sensible to adopt. Kids like red shiny food. If the thing that makes the red shiny food also causes cancer, banning that thing seems like a sensible thing to do.

The market will promote and sell any activity that harms people unless there is a regulatory or litigation push back. Social media is a market product like any other. Social media companies have largely insulated themselves from any liability. So in steps regulation.

Let Texas serve its role as a test tube of democracy and take a solution out for a walk.

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We’ve banned cigarette and alcohol companies from advertising to kids (and off course banned their sale to kids entirely). As THC products become widely available, similar rules seem sensible to adopt. Kids like red shiny food. If the thing that makes the red shiny food also causes cancer, banning that thing seems like a sensible thing to do.

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These have actual verifiable and measurable harmful effects. Is social media bad? It seems certainly that way, but the effects are still nebulous and can’t be accurately measured. And save me with the social sciences bullshite, it’s all ultimately opinion.

My social media has no negative impact on my life. I frick around on here and only follow things like sports on X, almost my entire food is objective news, if it’s not, I just ignore it because I’m not a lunatic.

This shite is a real slippery slope from both a social engineering and data collection perspective. No thanks.

If you want to do ad campaigns about how bad social media is, be my guest. Cigarettes were demonized by the government and now very few young people smoke. Objectively a good thing, but guess what, cigarettes are still available for purchase

How bout not buy a smarthphone till the kid's 18? Or buy a phone and the parent controls it? How bout parents model behavior and not walk into the grocery store staring at their phone?

Or do we actually need a village to raise a child?

No. Your point sucks. The effects of social media on children is very quantifiable. Suicide rates among teens have doubled in the last 20 years and social media is the main if not sole driver of that. Just because you aren’t capable of connecting the dots doesn’t mean it’s not true. You might have one of the most over-inflated sense of your own intelligence of anyone on this board, and that’s saying something.

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You might have one of the most over-inflated sense of your own intelligence of anyone on this board, and that’s saying something.

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Pariah

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You can speculate that, but you can’t objectively quantify it

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I just did objectively quantify it with suicide rates.

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can understand it just fine and also think it’s not out governments responsibility to fix it. But im not a democrat so YMMV

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But you don’t think children should be allowed to drink or smoke cigarettes. So you may as well be a democrat.

Its objective data that in the last 20 years(since social media really started taking hold) teen suicide rates have nearly doubled. In this case correlation does mean causation. You’re just not bright enough to get it.