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Every generation this stuff is brought up. And it always means nothing. Of course it's wrong.
Rock and roll. TV. Videogames. Social media...
Indeed, but to riff on the article a bit - the thing that's different is that social media has demonstrative harm.
We need to be teaching kids to use it responsibly, regulating tech companies to give it away responsibly, and not just banning it and grabbing screens out of hands.
Is the regulation in the room with us right?
Ain't nobody regulating shit in any meaningful way. Parents gonna need to learn how to parent or their kids will be fucked.
This has always been the case though.
Yep. As a Gen Xer with a teenage son, when I hear my peers freaking out about our kids and technology, I remind them what our parents said about MTV.