The damaging consequences of social media are increasingly well documented, so some parents are trying to raise their children with restrictions or blanket bans on social media use.
  • FrostyCaveman@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Life as a teen isn’t easy anyway

    Glad that shit is over for me. We only had MySpace and MSN Messenger. Must be so much worse now

    • DannyMac@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I’d say so with those constant little dopamine hits. Shit, I’m 40 and I’ve had to put a bunch of efforSHIT IM ON LEMMY AGAIN!

  • yokonzo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I mean I got along without it, i just played video games and masturbated most of the time

    • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Sounds like you’re older though. Social media wasn’t nearly as ubiquitous a decade ago as it is now.

      There was separation between online and everything else. But for these kids, online is everything. The spaces are nearly equal in experience and importance.