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by logifail
1236 days ago
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> About the friendships they might have had if they had a phone with Snapchat on it? A lot of social life for kids happens online. A lot of things are said (and done) - often in haste - online, which one would simply never experience in a face-to-face interaction. We support our kids participating in lots of team sports, not because they're amazingly talented (although they're all better than I was when I was that age!), but because we believe it's good for them, physically and socially. |
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This is the way to do it. People forget that while some teenage social life occurs online, not all of it does, and the part that can be done in-person is a lot healthier than what's online. In real life, are people going to be comparing themselves to Instagram posts? Unlikely, but even then, there will be a lot more nuance of something like, say, going on an international trip, where a friend can tell you the good and bad rather than showing only the good on an IG photo and making the viewer feel bad because they didn't go on such a trip.
Real life interaction simply has less ability to lack nuance, which I think is a good thing.