I set expectations when she saved up and got the phone – little did I know it would undermine them, and her mental health

I think its not just kids anymore, it’s adults too. Everyone is glued to their screens these days. But kids are more vulnerable to influences from “social” media and don’t have any defences to the psychological warfare going on. Of course they feel like shit.

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    5 months ago

    the first generation of 10-to-14-year-olds active on social media. For these girls, suicide rates have risen 151%, self-harm 182%.

    Citations needed. Even if there’s a legit study (unlikely), correlation =/= causation.

    I recently met a woman who seized her 11-year-old son’s phone when she discovered he was sexting

    Why give a phone to an 11 year old in the first place? These people are solving problems that they themselves created, then blaming phones.