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re: Texas bill: under 18 banned from social media
Posted on 5/1/25 at 1:52 pm to St Augustine
Posted on 5/1/25 at 1:52 pm to St Augustine
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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
I completely agree, I saw it happen about second grade with girls, they're emotional destroyers, even at that age.
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now it’s just relentless.
If the kid doesn't have homework they "need" to Facetime the school group with, why do they even have their phones on them once they're home?
Social media is as much bullying as parents let it turn into outside of school hours. The uselessness produced by the generation that constantly needs to stare at a screen and be fed entertainment will damage them well out of puberty.
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good parents to be able to step in here
I'd just say adequate parents.
re: mental illness, I think we're just having it advertised to us much more clearly because of our consumption of social media, not necessarily that it's more prevalent. We had the satanists in the 80s, cults and shrinks "helping" kids remember things that didn't happen in the 90s, etc. I think it's more media and anxiety (I'm speaking my truth!) kind of BS more than it is social media *causing* it. Hell, I had anxiety in the 80s thinking there were going to be Soviet nukes heading us at any minute, but I thought about it a good bit less than I think about Karens on social media.
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Posted on 5/1/25 at 1:52 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
I know some
This is My City.
quote:that will shut you up quickfast for talking like that.
dot Indians
This is My City.
Posted on 5/1/25 at 1:54 pm to HeadCall
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Its objective data that in the last 20 years(since social media really started taking hold) teen suicide rates have nearly doubled.
Objective
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In this case correlation does mean causation.
Subjective
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You’re just not bright enough to get it.
I get it fine, and don’t disagree with your general premise
Posted on 5/1/25 at 1:54 pm to 214
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This is My City.
What Flower Mound? You can have it
Posted on 5/1/25 at 2:03 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
quote:Some of them stay right there in Lakewood. Don't test me short stack
What Flower Mound? You can have it
Posted on 5/1/25 at 2:04 pm to 214
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Some of them stay right there in Lakewood. Don't test me short stack
You’ve been registered for a month. What did you do to get your last username banned?
Posted on 5/1/25 at 2:05 pm to BabyTac
Will be hard to enforce but ya social media is fing terrible for kids. Every study ever done all agrees it's about the worst thing for kids mental health.
Posted on 5/1/25 at 2:56 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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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.
We're talking about the effects of social media on children and you're talking about yourself
Posted on 5/1/25 at 2:58 pm to BabyTac
There's very few if any good reasons to have folks under 18 on social media.
Posted on 5/1/25 at 3:00 pm to DeathValley85
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We're talking about the effects of social media on children and you're talking about yourself
Believe it or not, I was once a kid
Posted on 5/1/25 at 3:00 pm to LemmyLives
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Throwing a kid an iPad to shut them up to watch cartoons is probably more destructive than kids going after each other on social media
I'm gonna go ahead and disagree there. The bullying that follows kids home now is just absolutely insane. I at least could avoid it when I went home, but these kids are getting shite on in real life and then virtually 24/7.
Posted on 5/1/25 at 3:05 pm to St Augustine
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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.
There is a very easy solution to this problem. All it takes is for a parent to be a parent.
Posted on 5/1/25 at 3:12 pm to BabyTac
Don't think the IT Bros on the right will stand for it and they have bought and now own the supreme court and both houses of the federal legislature so they probably won't have to stand for it but it really should be outlawed for anyone under 21. If alcohol is bad social media is horrendous...and we are pretty well all in agreement that most people under 21 ought not be drinking alcohol.
Posted on 5/1/25 at 3:13 pm to BabyTac
Texas legislature has been a lefty tear lately.
Texas is getting oretty close to cooked status if this tempo keeps up.
Texas is getting oretty close to cooked status if this tempo keeps up.
Posted on 5/1/25 at 3:17 pm to BabyTac
No. This is the parents’ responsibility.
Also, you ain’t getting out IDs and tracking our accounts.
Also, you ain’t getting out IDs and tracking our accounts.
Posted on 5/1/25 at 3:21 pm to AwgustaDawg
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and we are pretty well all in agreement that most people under 21 ought not be drinking alcohol.
I don’t find this to be true at all
Posted on 5/1/25 at 3:22 pm to BabyTac
Not a fan of government dictating social interaction, but I think this is a justifiable use of the state's authority.
Social media is clearly damaging to our youth and is creating widespread consequences in all segments of our society.
Attention spans are a fraction of what they used to be. Today, kids are only used to digesting short, overstimulating pieces of information and can no longer focus the way their parents and grandparents could.
If that argument isn't compelling to you, there are hundreds of other justifiable reasons to ban social media for kids.
Good for Texas.
Social media is clearly damaging to our youth and is creating widespread consequences in all segments of our society.
Attention spans are a fraction of what they used to be. Today, kids are only used to digesting short, overstimulating pieces of information and can no longer focus the way their parents and grandparents could.
If that argument isn't compelling to you, there are hundreds of other justifiable reasons to ban social media for kids.
Good for Texas.
Posted on 5/1/25 at 3:23 pm to TooFyeToFly
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Not a fan of government dictating social interaction, but I think this is a justifiable use of the state's authority. Social media is clearly damaging to our youth and is creating widespread consequences in all segments of our society. Attention spans are a fraction of what they used to be. Today, kids are only used to digesting short, overstimulating pieces of information and can no longer focus the way their parents and grandparents could. If that argument isn't compelling to you, there are hundreds of other justifiable reasons to ban social media for kids. Good for Texas.
You’re a democrat, congratulations
Posted on 5/1/25 at 3:24 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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You’re a democrat, congratulations
Thanks, dude.
Posted on 5/1/25 at 3:24 pm to BabyTac
All wives should be banned from social media. I trust my wife, but I sympathize with most men who do not.
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