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> More than 1 in 10 (14%) had ever been forced to have sex 14% of all the teenage girls are raped? How is this possible? I'm really not the one to grab the pitchfork first for sure but this... I don't know... How are we okay with this?
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Teens don't know about this and it's unfair to expect them to. For them Insta and TikTok are part of social life, and basically necessary. Parents are obviously to blame; most are ambivalent or enmeshed in social media themselves. Their communities are to blame as well. I wonder, do schools ever address these issues? Or do they just tell kids to put down their phones in class?
I am 100% with you. Parents should have the right and responsibility to monitor and regulate their children's consumption of aforementioned tools.
While I don't blame anyone solely, there's lots of blame to go around - solely blaming the parents doesn't hold up. Kids are ostracized if they don't have a smartphone, don't have TikTok, and don't have YouTube. It's easy to blame the parents, but it's unreasonable to expect them to know how to deal with new technology and how to enforce it with kids.
Probably an unpopular take here, but I think within a decade or so social media and technology will have it's "smoking moment" and be regulated harder. Probably some sort of age limits, protections for minors and enforced parental controls (like whitelisted channels, screentime, and such). As today it's pretty much impossible for a parent to see what kids are doing on these applications, and pretty much impossible for them to enforce it if they aren't in the same room.
Those years during high school are a very challenging time in one’s life, when we develop into adults. The fundamental question of “Who am I? Where do I fit into society?” are subconsciously trying to get answered. On the other side, in the west, we have a very body-centered idea of self-worth, exaggerated by TV, music and social media. Fundamentally, I do not see this situation getting any better because of how soci…
It think tight regulation of advertisement industry could help. They really have all the incentive to make people feel worse. It directly translates to their income.
There should be pre-publishing check on every advert. Like a focus group paid for by advertiser, but organized by government body. If it makes people feel worse after watching it it shouldn't be allowed to publish.
Advertisement is not a free speech.
"Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic in Teen Girls. Here’s the Evidence."
https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/social-media-mental-ill...
Those years during high school are a very challenging time in one’s life, when we develop into adults. The fundamental question of “Who am I? Where do I fit into society?” are subconsciously trying to get answered. On the other side, in the west, we have a very body-centered idea of self-worth, exaggerated by TV, music and social media. Fundamentally, I do not see this situation getting any better because of how soci…
> Fundamentally, I do not see this situation getting any better because of how society is wired right now. It think tight regulation of advertisement industry could help. They really have all the incentive to make people feel worse. It directly translates to their income. There should be pre-publishing check on every advert. Like a focus group paid for by advertiser, but organized by government body. If it makes peop…
How about spend less time on Instagram and TikTok and more in nature?
Is that this boring place where people get abducted from constantly? /s
There is much more external reasons for young american females to feel sad right now. Culture wars, politicians becoming extremists, legislations and many other factors. I think people in general feel much less save right now, not only teen girls