• RaoulDook@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I’m not a ban fan but social media like that is psychological cancer that is definitely harming the young and old mentally.

    Kids growing up these days have the burden of the disgusting need for social media self-promotion. They are conditioned that attention and Likes are the most valuable social currency, and waste so much of their valuable youth pursuing that hollow bullshit.

    I’m keeping my kids off social media for as long as I can so they can experience growing up without Cloud-automated peer pressure.

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      7 months ago

      This will do nothing about that. If TikTok is banned, kids will just move to something else. You would have to ban all social media. Good luck with that.

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      7 months ago

      You can’t ban peer pressure. That’s like trying to stop the flow of water.

    • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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      7 months ago

      I’m a new parent trying to navigate all this myself.

      Most research I’ve been able to find suggests that social media doesn’t cause problems, but rather kids with problems tend to spend too much time on social media. As in there’s no causal link between social media and whatever social problems.

      I guess when my kids get to that age the best I’ll be able to do will be to try to keep them engaged with the physical world however I can.