Youth social media bans should raise privacy concerns for everyone

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That being said, kids 100% should not be on social media. I think this has been proven time and time again at this point, no?

Why? Isn’t socializing the base of all society? Aren’t social media the privileged way people do socialize nowadays? Why should kids be kept at bay? Is it for their safety? But then…

  • Aren’t most kind of abuses happening within families and not online? So, should families be forbidden to kids too and should they be raised collectively, by some institution, instead? But then…
  • Aren’t schools (an institution that already deal with kids a few hours every single day of the week) the second place in importance in which kids can sustain abuses of many form? Should kids be kept out of schools too, then?

Those are too absurd examples (hopefully no one will consider those ideas seriously) of the real absurdity of the entire debate regarding social media. At least, imho.

If kid’s safety was the issue with social media we should change those social media and the way we, the adults, the ones showing the example to kids, are using them. But we’re not. Instead, we’re making it illegal for kids to use those shitty social media… making them even more enticing to use!

It looks so much like the prohibition (and we all know how well it turned, and what was the real motivation) it would be funny if it was not so sad for the kids having to deal with that hopelessly clueless adults around them.

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Why? Isn’t socializing the base of all society? Aren’t social media the privileged way people do socialize nowadays? Why should kids be kept at bay? Is it for their safety?

Problem is not user or socialize, problem is platform. Design to be addictive, keep you on platform for more ad, feed you dopamine and get emotion to keep you hook.

Same argument of protect from alcohol, tobacco, cocaine, …

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That’s more or less what I ‘m saying: we need to work on those tools, not on filtering who is allowed to use them.

Adults are not that smarter than kids, imvho, they too could very easily be considered ‘victims’ of those manipulative tools. And maybe they should, watching how they poorly behave while they’re pretending to show kids what it means to be a ‘responsible adult’.

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I got sexually harassed in school and no one ever did anything about it

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I accept your reasoning, I have pretty harsh views on social media so I tend to believe everyone is better off without.

I feel for marginalized people, I think it’s tragic that they need to rely on internet strangers for support rather than the people in their day to day lives, but that’s another topic entirely.

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I have pretty harsh views on social media so I tend to believe everyone is better off without

you won’t find me anywhere but here, so we very well agree on that question. I just try to consider the issue itself more than what I may or may not think about it ;)

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