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by maxrecursion 804 days ago
This shows the real problem is more getting sucked into online social groups rather than having constant communication with real life friends.

The toxic part of social media is the online personas and interactions with strangers, who are perceived as friends.

There is a balance of letting kids have messenger and play games online with friends, than letting them have social media accounts, and burrow into cesspools of online activities that a lot of these social sites are.