[CraigJPerry]

I don’t know.

Wireless radio (it will mean mothers no longer sing to their children), various genres of music over the years (will harm development of children), newspapers (in the 30s there was an obsession with young men reading newspapers rather than talking to their colleagues or family, like a mobile phone concern but in the 30s - if you Google this story you can find some impressive pictures of lines of men waiting at a bus stop and every single one is reading a newspaper).

It wouldn’t surprise me if kids are better adjusted to social media than adults. The kids don’t need to go through a readjustment period of trying to convert their expectations to the new reality.

Kids will still bully each other with or without social media. There will Still exist dangers which can’t be controlled without active parenting and an attentive society.

I see the attraction of banning social media below a certain age but i can’t help think that open discussion with kids would be far more effective.

[crmd]

Young victims of schoolyard bullying could in the past retreat to safe spaces - a friend’s house, a favorite art or music teacher’s classroom, the computer club. Today, the bullies are posting cruel messages and media about you in huge group chats and creating fake social media accounts under your name to embarrass you. The abuse follows them into their bedrooms. There’s literally nowhere for them to go to hide. This is why tween suicide rates are skyrocketing, especially for girls.

[CraigJPerry]

>> Young victims of schoolyard bullying could in the past retreat to safe spaces

I don't think you meant it this way but what you're saying there is that victims of bullying who have been physically harmed in school yards could have just retreated to a safe space and avoided it. Clearly that's not true. I don't think you meant that but the words you've used are clearly wrong.

The one advantage of social media is that it does have an off button, in a way that the bully screaming in your face in the lunch hall queue does not.

>> This is why tween suicide rates are skyrocketing

I'm sure it's a contributing factor but this is just a statement we can't back up other than with faith that we think we understand what's happening. The truth is we don't fully understand.

>> to embarrass you

It is definitely a viable medium for bullys to harm victims. What i'm getting at is the problem is the bullying rather than the medium. If you play whackamole with all the ways a person can persecute another, you'll never solve it.

[parkingrift]

We don’t need to guess. It’s been well studied and reviewed. Social media is extremely harmful for children, and especially young girls.

It’s also extremely harmful for adults, but adults can make their own decisions.