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Social Media Messed Up Our Kids. Now It Is Making Us Ungovernable

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Re: Social Media Messed Up Our Kids. Now It Is Making Us Ungovernable

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Again, the usual scarecrow of "internet is corrupting our kids and our minds"...

The good excuse to push for population censorship and control.

The truth is that the problem is coming from the social society that we prefer to ignore: education collapsing, government and political world having arms wide open to dictatorship when it benefits to them,...

Just to remember that a few decades ago, same kind of persons were stating that books and free press are responsible for all of the moral corruption of the society...

Re: Social Media Messed Up Our Kids. Now It Is Making Us Ungovernable

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Looking at different generations (parents boomers vs millennials like myself) while there may be some group similarities, it seems to be like addiction or drugs, where humans take to social media on a spectrum from those who avoid it to those who make it their lives and the average people who use it as a tool sometimes

Re: Social Media Messed Up Our Kids. Now It Is Making Us Ungovernable

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The 2015+ timeline definitely tracks with my wife's anecdotal experience. She's been working in pediatrics (exclusively at Children's Hospitals) since 2003 and the amount of kids she sees with self harm or suicide attempts has grown so much in the recent years.

Re: Social Media Messed Up Our Kids. Now It Is Making Us Ungovernable

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Again, the usual scarecrow of "internet is corrupting our kids and our minds"... The good excuse to push for population censorship and control. The truth is that the problem is coming from the social society that we prefer to ignore: education collapsing, government and political world having arms wide open to dictatorship when it benefits to them,... Just to remember that a few decades ago, same kind of persons were…

> Just to remember that a few decades ago, same kind of persons were stating that books and free press are responsible for all of the moral corruption of the society

I think you’re quite confused on this point.

Re: Social Media Messed Up Our Kids. Now It Is Making Us Ungovernable

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Looking at different generations (parents boomers vs millennials like myself) while there may be some group similarities, it seems to be like addiction or drugs, where humans take to social media on a spectrum from those who avoid it to those who make it their lives and the average people who use it as a tool sometimes

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Re: Social Media Messed Up Our Kids. Now It Is Making Us Ungovernable

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Again, the usual scarecrow of "internet is corrupting our kids and our minds"... The good excuse to push for population censorship and control. The truth is that the problem is coming from the social society that we prefer to ignore: education collapsing, government and political world having arms wide open to dictatorship when it benefits to them,... Just to remember that a few decades ago, same kind of persons were…

There is a major political party in the US wanting to dismantle education https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025
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