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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are the ones creating this environment for the kids.

You are the ones who create pressure to succeed academically, you are the ones who are too busy to drive them to meet up with friends, you are the ones who are creating rat race to the selective colleges.

[b]All social media posts about beauty, expense clothing, designer houses are created by women. [/b] Men don’t post this crap.

So let’s take a hard look at ourselves.[/quote]

This is not the full story with social media, though. Kids are accessing suicide glorification and how-to guides on social media. I think someone already posted a link here, but it bears posting again:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/01/business/instagram-suicide-ruling-britain.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

It’s not just FOMO we’re talking about here. There are algorithmic whirlpools that kids can get caught in and they’ll just go deeper and deeper into some really disturbing stuff. TikTok is full of teen girls listing their myriad mental illnesses, diagnosing themselves with one thing after another, and they get tons of positive reinforcement for it. 
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