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by irrational 1236 days ago
Then nothing. I am not worried about these things at all. We have a 25 year old, a 23 year old, and a 21 year old and their social lives were never impacted. And the 25 year old has thanked us for keeping her off of social media until she was older and more mature.
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> their social lives were never impacted.

This is hard to believe to the point of me thinking your kids were in a plato's cave. It was not possible to have a normal social life without social media as a teenager over the last 10 years. Full stop. You will miss out on events because you can not be invited the normal way. Whether that's a big deal or not is certainly debatable, but claiming that it doesn't exist is ostrich behavior.

Perhaps you are the one in Plato’s cave, unable to imagine that a life without social media can be viable and normal?
Well, that has not been our experience. Sorry to burst your bubble.
The people in the cave weren't experiencing reality either.